joepcds/knife-rackspace — comment on commit 215471e63661e8df9ebcd19c48ccafa3abb1f799
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By joepcds:

No, I sort of gave up dealing with Opscode on a couple other issues of where it felt like they didn't care about issues like RackConnect, so I came up with my own solution basically without modifying their code. Basically I created a Cloud Servers image I have pre-loaded with some keys and with a script to download the RackConnect convert script. Whenever I spin up a new cloud server it auto runs the script. The above code is great, but the problem is on bootstrap it would never work anyway, because the servers won't even be able to get outbound access out of RackConnect for minimum 10-15 minutes due to Rackspace's ACL generator only fire's that often, not realtime. So I wait until I get the ACL notification, then I fire off the Chef job and direct it to the manual IP in a Knife bootstrap command.