2009/9/14 dmangot <dman...@terracottatech.com>: > > On Sep 11, 5:07 am, Chris <chrisma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm starting to use EC2, and I'm after some examples of best practices/ >> tips and tricks from folk with more experience of the Puppet/EC2 combo >> than me: >> >> We're starting by using EC2 for testing and development purposes. This >> means that we won't be running our instances full-time; rather, we'll >> be spinning them up and down for a few hours at a time, as and when >> needed. I'd like the instances to call back to my local puppetmaster >> to configure themselves post-boot. > > Chris, > > I did exactly this. Check out my blog post: > > http://tech.mangot.com/roller/dave/entry/on_running_terracotta_on_ec2 > > Works great. > > Cheers, > > -Dave >
I went along with a slightly different route. 1) Puppetmaster in datacentre exposed with an external DNS. 2) Ruby scipts to start the EC2 instances and create a puppet nodes manifest file with the internal DNS names. 3) Another script then parses for the internal DNSs and cleans the certs on the master, along with removing any existing manifest for that node. 4) cron job script that polls EC2 account for instances and removes ones in the nodes/ec2 directory that are no longer running. I've recently rebuilt the AMI and changed the EC2 starting scripts to contain both a URL for the puppet client rpms and the puppet.conf data in the EC2 userdata. This way we don't need multiple AMIs for different puppetmasters or different versions of the puppet client. Would have loved to talk more about this stuff at puppet camp, shame i'm unlikely to be able to make it. Cheers, Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
