Salt on make me: APe

Brand new 'Salted' containers

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:16:07 +0200

TL;DR

My matrix looks like:

# invoke.yaml - PyInvoke Configuration for Salted Containers Matrix Validation
run:
 echo: true
 pty: true

# Matrix build parameters for Salted containers
matrix:
 distros:
 - ubuntu-22.04
 - ubuntu-20.04
 - debian-11
 - debian-12
 salt_versions:
 - "3006.1"
 - "3005.1"
 - "3004.2"
 engines:
 - reclass
 - saltclass

# Default deployment / testing configuration
defaults:
 saltmaster:
 config_dir: "/etc/salt"
 formulas_path: "/srv/salt/formulas"
 states_path: "/srv/salt/states"
 pillar_path: "/srv/salt/pillar"
 validation:
 ignore_missing_pillar: false
 fail_on_warning: true
 reclass_nodes_dir: "/srv/salt/reclass/nodes"

Tools evaluated

To solve the issue I wrote a simple "makefile" specification with PyInvoke .

Salt-Formulas updates

Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:01:07 +0200

Sum up all features on salt-formulas project (https://github.com/salt-formulas ). For the first, and only this time, for the whole year.

The most features comes from Mirantis and it’s MCP product portfolio, however the public participation in the past year was also important.

As the I generated it, and as I have done only limited post-processing the content might contain some formatting issues. Further reviews will come “seasonal” and hopefully better formatted.

Salt NACL encryption for external pillars

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:01:07 +0200

This article is about encrypting Satl external pillars with NACL.

TL;DR 🔗︎

Salt NACL is based on another SaltStack project libnacl , an wrapper for libsodium and Salt nacl resources (module , runner , renderer and ext_pillar ).

Overview of merged features to develop branch:

NACL module, runner (around 2015.x)
NACL update with secretbox, sealedbox (around 2017/Aug)
NACL render with boxed syntax support NACL[Cr7ptHere=] (around 2017/Aug)

Testing salt formulas and models with kitchen-salt

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:01:07 +0200

TL;DR

An overview how to implement salt-formula test's with kitchen-salt.

Overview

In this article I will talk about writing and testing https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ]. An curated collection of formulas behind salt-formulas community. The concepts however will fit to any salt formula.

If you are interested in https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ] read more at: https://salt-formulas.readthedocs.io/en/latest >[readthedocs salt-formulas].

To test formulas we will use https://github.com/saltstack/kitchen-salt[kitchen-salt ] framework.

Byobu script to pre-open session to salt minions

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:31:07 +0200

Recently I wrote an handy script to pre-open byobu session window to most of the minions. And split pane on each minion that create’s cluster.

Salt on make me: APe

Brand new 'Salted' containers

TL;DR#

Tools evaluated#

Salt-Formulas updates

Salt NACL encryption for external pillars

TL;DR 🔗︎#

Testing salt formulas and models with kitchen-salt

TL;DR#

Overview#

Byobu script to pre-open session to salt minions

TL;DR

Tools evaluated

TL;DR 🔗︎

TL;DR

Overview