Salt Stack

Ever wanted to target salt states based on data only the underlying OpenStack cluster knows. Here’s how I did it.

I needed to install a set of VMs to run apps within Docker containers. In the case of Discourse, docker requires you to use aufs instead of devicemapper.

A common task while writing server configuration management manifests is to make sure that some enforcements are run in specific situations.

Cloud-Init is made in a way that it handles distribution specific package installation details automatically. With it, you can create a new salt master in a few commands.

Avez-vous déjà voulu automatiser le déploiement de votre infrastructure serveurs web de A-Z? C’est exactement sur quoi je travaille en ce moment.

Some notes on how I created our updated MariaDB database cluster with replication.

Voici une courte procédure décrivant comment je crée une nouvelle machine virtuelle et y applique les configurations automatiquement.

At work, I use an OpenStack environment and a few Salt states to manage a set of virtual machines. I'd like to give another life to two old laptops that spend most of their time shut down, but without changing or using their local hard drives.

When you need to adjust a file with a specific code modification and you are sure the file will not change over time, patch is a viable solution. This tutorial shows how to create a patch, sign it, and make sure it is applied.