Between the advent of handy tools, like Chef and Puppet, and virtual machine infrastructures, like VMWare and AWS, I feel like there has been a great debate about how to bootstrap machines. It seems like there are two extremes. On one side is heavy reliance on machine images (AMIs, in AWS speak) or scripting (recipes, […]
Bootstrapping Chef (or Whatever) for Autoscaled EC2 Instances
I realize it is traditional to start writing a new blog with some background and a deep introspection as to the author’s personal motivation for writing said blog, but I’ve never been one for tradition. Thus, for my first official DevOps post, I think I’ll jump write in with a technical tutorial on a problem […]