Creating and configuring a virtual machine in Amazon EC2

Before creating and configuring a virtual machine in Amazon EC2, let's verify the existing nodes converged by Chef. Local virtual machines are only configured using Chef:

[root@devops1 Desktop]# knife node list
tomcatserver

1. After installing knife EC2 plugin, we can use knife ec2 server create command with following parameters to create new virtual machine:

   Parameter	Value	Description
   -I	ami-1ecae776	ID of the Amazon machine image
   -f	t2.micro	Type of virtual machine
   -N	DevOpsVMonAWS	Name of the Chef node
   --aws-access-key-id	Your access key ID	AWS account access key ID
   --aws-secret-access-key	Your secret access key	AWS account secret access key
   -S	Book	SSH key
   --identity-file	book.pem	PEM file
   --ssh-user	ec2-user	User for AWS instance
   -r	role[v-tomcat]	Chef role

   [root@devops1 Desktop]# knife ec2 server create -I ami-1ecae776 -f t2.micro -N DevOpsVMonAWS --aws-access-key...