Everything these scripts do is done much better by the vagrant-aws plugin (which happens to be written by Vagrant's author).

This repository shows how to use the same chef-solo-based provisioning scheme for Vagrant virtual machines and Amazon's EC2. This is useful because you'll be able to test the deployment procedures as you develop within a clean Vagrant machine. Running continuous deployment locally also saves tons of partial instance-hours, which can run into the hundreds of cents (I'm not made of money, people).

These scripts have been tested only on Ubuntu Linux.

Just use Vagrant as you normally would:

cd a_vagrant_machine/
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Start up a new EC2 instance (ami-af7e2eea is a US west coast Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit server)

ec2-run-instances ami-af7e2eea                 \
  --instance-type t1.micro                     \
  --key yournamehere                           \
  --user-data-file bootstrap.sh

find its IP with

ec2-describe-instances

and provision it using the same recipes as the demo Vagrant machine machine by running

./setup.sh <ip address> a_vagrant_machine/

DONE!

Don't forget to turn off your instances when you're finished:

ec2-terminate-instances <i-instance_id>

Just add three lines in the provisioning section of your Vagrantfile so it looks like this: Note: fixed problem (tar command does not have --transform option) on MacOS X

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|

  <your provisioning here>

  require 'json'
  open('dna.json', 'w') do |f|
    chef.json[:run_list] = chef.run_list
    f.write chef.json.to_json
  end
    open('.cookbooks_path.json', 'w') do |f|
    f.puts JSON.generate([chef.cookbooks_path]
                           .flatten
                           .map{|x| x})
  end
end

On your local machine, you will need the following

• ec2-api-tools Ubuntu multiverse package (this is not currently in Debian's apt repositories; you'll need to download the Ubuntu .deb package and use dpkg --install)
• VirtualBox 4
• Vagrant rubygem; gem install vagrant
• The lucid32 Vagrant base box; vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box. Take a look at the vagrant-ubuntu repository for scripts to make custom Ubuntu-based Vagrant base boxes.

Add to your .bashrc

EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/path/to/pk-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
EC2_CERT=/path/to/cert-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
EC2_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY=/path/to/pk-yournamehere.pem
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/
EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com

This project is sponsored by Keming Labs, a technical design studio specializing in data visualization.