Tag Archives: ec2

Puppet, Facts and Certificates

March 13, 2008 – 1:14 pm

I’m currently setting up Puppet at Vquence so that, among other things, we can deploy hosts into Amazon EC2 more easily. To ensure a minimum setup time on a new server I wanted the setup to be as simple as echo ‘DAEMON_OPTS=”-w 120 –fqdn newserver.vquence.com –server puppetmaster.vquence.com” > /etc/default/puppet aptitude install puppet This means that [...]

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Amazon EC2 ruby gem and large user_data

February 26, 2008 – 11:05 am

When you create an instance in EC2 you can send Amazon some user data that is accessible by your instance. At Vquence we use this to send a script that gets executes at boot up. This script contains some openvpn and puppet RSA keys so its approaching about 10k in size. This works without any [...]

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