Really interested to learn about how you use Chef to bring up and configure your ephemeral instances.
Also, do you backup your databases anywhere other than on other ephemeral instances?
Also, do you backup your databases anywhere other than on other ephemeral instances?
We have 2 separate chef recipes for our DBs:
One is for a full-time slave. This recipe will set up the db to use the EBS volume.
The other is for a slave that will be promoted to a master. In this case, we do a little extra legwork to do a bit-by-bit copy of a recent EBS snapshot, onto the ephemeral disk.
Sounds like I have more blog posts to write!