knife-ec2

knife-ec2

sudo yum install patch libxml2-devel libxslt
sudo /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-ec2 --no-ri --no-rdoc

# Add the following to knife.rb
# region: oregon
knife[:aws_access_key_id] = "Your AWS Access Key ID"
knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "Your AWS Secret Access Key"
knife[:region] = "us-west-2"

#validate 
knife ec2 flavor list

# Create ec2 instance with knife 
knife ec2 server create  \
  -r "recipe[motd]" \ 
  -I ami-e7527ed7  --flavor t2.micro \
  -g <VPC_SEC_GRP_ID> \
  -x ec2-user -N server01  \ 
  –ssh-key <YOUR_KEYPAIR> \
  -i <SSH_KEY> -s <VPC_SUBNET_ID> \
  --associate-public-ip  --server-connect-attribute public_ip_address \
  --region us-west-2

e.g. 
knife ec2 server create  \
  -r "recipe[motd]" -I ami-e7527ed7 \ 
  --flavor t2.micro -g sg-c3576ca6 \ 
  -x ec2-user -N server01 \
  -i ~/.ssh/gshah2k10.pem  \
  --subnet subnet-5c8f3a2b \
  --region us-west-2 --ssh-key gshah2k10 \ 
  --associate-public-ip  --server-connect-attribute public_ip_address