How can I create AWS vpc, subnets, security groups in opscode chef?

Question

I can create AWS vpc, subnets, security groups, route53 in Ansible easily. But I did not find any good documents to create these same in Chef using predefined modules or plugins. Using knife EC2 plugin I can only launch aws instance but that is also not working properly.

Answer 1

There is both the aws cookbook mentioned above as well as the rathole that is chef-provisioning (though VPC and subnet management is probably out of scope for that but I've never tried so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯).

Overall I would highly recommend using Terraform or SparkleFormation or a similar tool for this, there just isn't as good a user experience to do hardware management through Chef compared to those tools.