I have a Chef server running on AWS. I am able to connect to it via web browser and see the web ui from my machine which isn't the ec2. But when I bootstrap the node, also a ec2, it fails to connect to the server after 5 attempts. If I copy and the exact url that it is trying to connect to from the error message and paste it into my browser it works. If I curl the url from the Chef server it works. If I curl the url or ping the IP from the node, it fails. Any ideas?
I have a Chef server running on our local network and tested it with other machines on the same network and everything worked fine. I started up a ec2 instance, and try to bootstrap and it works until it tries to connect to the Chef server. My question is, is there any way around having the Chef server public? Or is there a way that I can bypass whatever the node requires from the server?