Using custom knife plugins
Knife comes with a set of commands out of the box. The built-in commands deal with the basic elements of Chef-like cookbooks, roles, data bags, and so on. However, it would be nice to use knife for more than just the basic stuff. Fortunately, knife comes with a plugin API and there are already a host of useful knife plugins built by the makers of Chef and the Chef community.
Getting ready
Make sure you have an account at Amazon Web Services (AWS) if you want to follow along and try out the knife-ec2 plugin. There are knife plugins available for most Cloud providers. Go through the There's more... section of this recipe for the list.
How to do it...
Let's see which knife plugins are available, and try to use one to manage ...
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