class Chef::Resource::AwsInternetGateway

An AWS internet gateway, allowing communication between instances inside a VPC and the internet.

`name` is not guaranteed unique for an AWS account; therefore, Chef will store the internet gateway ID associated with this name in your Chef server in the data bag `data/aws_internet_gateway/<name>`.

API documentation for the AWS Ruby SDK for VPCs (and the object returned from `aws_object` can be found here:

Public Instance Methods

aws_object() click to toggle source
# File lib/chef/resource/aws_internet_gateway.rb, line 43
def aws_object
  driver, id = get_driver_and_id
  ec2_resource = ::Aws::EC2::Resource.new(driver.ec2)
  result = ec2_resource.internet_gateway(id) if id
  result && exists?(result) ? result : nil
end
exists?(result) click to toggle source
# File lib/chef/resource/aws_internet_gateway.rb, line 50
def exists?(result)
  return true if result.data
rescue ::Aws::EC2::Errors::InvalidInternetGatewayIDNotFound
  false
end