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Running chef manually in a opsworks instance
# put the cookbook path in solo.rb file.
echo 'cookbook_path ["/opt/aws/opsworks/current/site-cookbooks"]' > solo.rb
# create json file incase if you want use the attributes from opsworks.
opsworks-agent-cli get_json > attributes.json
#run chef-solo
/opt/aws/opsworks/current/bin/chef-solo -c solo.rb -o cookbook_name::default -j attributes.json
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nijotz commented Apr 5, 2017

Thank you so much. Was digging through AWS docs forever until I found this. So much easier to iterate now.

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qpfiffer commented Apr 5, 2017

📦

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nijotz commented Apr 5, 2017

🌮 🥇 🍔

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noboomu commented Jun 29, 2017

If you use berkshelf use this instead:
echo 'cookbook_path ["/opt/aws/opsworks/current/berkshelf-cookbooks"]' > solo.rb

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