Deploy an AWS Auto Scaling groups using Chef Server

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Published on 2012-04-12T04:52:49Z Indexed on 2012/04/12 5:32 UTC
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You can, for example, to deploy an an Auto Scaling groups consists of web severs, ELB and DB using AWS CloudFormation (with Chef server): http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/

But, you need to initially create a CF template, is it possible to do it only using Chef Server and Knife? We don't want to rely much on the CloudFormation and seems the hosted Chef server at (http://www.opscode.com/) is able to do so.

Any opensource alternative?

Thanks.

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