AWS::OpsWorksCM::Server EngineAttribute

The EngineAttribute property type specifies administrator credentials for an AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate or OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise server. EngineAttribute is a property of the AWS::OpsWorksCM::Server resource type.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON


{
  "Name" : String,
  "Value" : String
}

YAML


  Name: String
  Value: String

Properties

Name

The name of the engine attribute.

Attribute name for Chef Automate servers:

CHEF_AUTOMATE_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Attribute names for Puppet Enterprise servers:

PUPPET_ADMIN_PASSWORD
PUPPET_R10K_REMOTE
PUPPET_R10K_PRIVATE_KEY

Required: No

Type: String

Pattern: (?s).*

Maximum: 10000

Update requires: No interruption

Value

The value of the engine attribute.

Attribute value for Chef Automate servers:

CHEF_AUTOMATE_PIVOTAL_KEY: A base64-encoded RSA public key. The corresponding private key is required to access the Chef API. You can generate this key by running the following OpenSSL command on Linux-based computers.

openssl genrsa -out pivotal_key_file_name.pem 2048

On Windows-based computers, you can use the PuTTYgen utility to generate a base64-encoded RSA private key. For more information, see PuTTYgen - Key Generator for PuTTY on Windows on SSH.com.

Attribute values for Puppet Enterprise servers:

PUPPET_ADMIN_PASSWORD: An administrator password that you can use to sign in to the Puppet Enterprise console webpage after the server is online. The password must use between 8 and 32 ASCII characters.
PUPPET_R10K_REMOTE: The r10k remote is the URL of your control repository (for example, ssh://git@your.git-repo.com:user/control-repo.git). Specifying an r10k remote opens TCP port 8170.
PUPPET_R10K_PRIVATE_KEY: If you are using a private Git repository, add PUPPET_R10K_PRIVATE_KEY to specify a PEM-encoded private SSH key.