But sure, it could be a part of server migration I suppose, it doesn't do all that much.
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ponyup
coderanger:thanks for the clarification
docwho76
coderanger: thanks for the link, am aware of DSC but havent had time to look into it too much. stevenmurawski that does exactly what I was looking for. I need to spend some more time reading up on powershell, but work has been cray
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stevenmurawski
docwho76: great. coderanger's suggestion about dsc is a good one. Powershell.org has a free ebook on the topic that's not a long read
docwho76
Ill check that out
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ponyup
how to automate the stopping of AWS instances so that we can shut down the instances at whatever time we want gracefully ?
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coderanger
ponyup: Automate it in terms of what?
ponyup
suppose we have 50 instances running in a company on AWS,so we want that every instance should stop on friday evening ,so is there any easy process or scripts to do that?
and in a graceful way not abnormal shutdown
coderanger
ponyup: Not in Chef, at least not specifically. Would probably want to use a mix of the Autoscaling Group APIs and cron on an executor machine
ponyup
sounds cool!
cheeseplus
in theory you could run a chef provisioning recipe but that seems like an odd use of it
coderanger
Making it safely time-wise idempotent from recipe code would be really irritating
ponyup
okay
coderanger
Also provisioning can only manage machines it created AFAIK
cheeseplus
true
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coderanger
ponyup: But again, you are describing very complex infra tasks, not something off-the-shelf tech is going to do for you.
ponyup
i was asked in an interview this particular question
coderanger
coderanger
ponyup: Those kinds of questions exist to see how you work through them, there isn't a specific tool or technique that would be the "right answer"