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Managing Chef Cookbooks for OpsWorks with Berkshelf

AWS OpsWorks makes it easy to deploy Chef cookbooks to configure instances. But without a Chef Server, managing a large collection of cookbooks across multiple projects can be...

Mike Richardson in Automation 7 minutes

Secure Credentials with AWS KMS and Chef

Configuration files. They’re fantastic, hey? But they’re also pretty scary, as they tend to have a lot of sensitive data all stored in one place.

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Mike Richardson in Automation 9 minutes

Is the EC2 Container Service a bad idea?

The container revolutionaries call upon you! Are you ready to beg forgiveness for your sins of monolithic architecture?

Mike Richardson in Aws 5 minutes

Packer, Windows, AWS and SSL Howto

Packer, Windows, and AWS. The default Windows configuration that AWS launches is not compatible with Packer out of the box. In this post, I’ll explain what’s going on...

Mike Richardson in Packer 12 minutes

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