chef assign elastic ip to instance

I am using a custom bash script to spin up/down EC2 instances as needed. The script creates the instance similar to: knife ec2 server create –config .chef/knife.rb with a few other parameters. It creates the instance fine but I want to be able to assign my elastic ip to the current active instance. Short of … Read more

Customizing Chef cookbooks

I am trying to setup Munin using Chef, and I’m not sure where to put the customizations that are needed. For example, the documentation on Github says to add munin_plugin ‘plugin_name’, in the client.rb. While this is fine for right now, it seems to inhibit my ability to download upstream changes from the cookbook, because … Read more