After you've provisioned an instance, you are ready to test the instance. At this point, there are no instances running.
To take your instances online, adjust the Min
, Max
, and
Desired capacity
values for the Auto Scaling group to a number that makes
sense for your application. Initially, you may want to set these values to 1, to
bring a single instance online, and verify the instance performs all expected
actions including running your custom Chef recipes.