Saltstack-Playground

Virtualbox based Dev/Test System for Salt.

It's based on the original Salt Demo Environment with a gew fixes and modifications. You still can run all of the Tutorials menationed in the "getting Started" documentation: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/fundamentals/install.html

Prepare Environment

If you run VirtuaBox 6.1 you need to patch Vagrant manually, because VB6.1 it's currently not officially supported.

The change are only a few lines of code and well described. Please check details here: oracle/vagrant-projects#178

My Setup

• Master - Master Server and as well a Minion0
• Minion 1, 2 - Prepared with individual key and auto accept
• Minion 3 - client installed with a different Key than announced on the sever - result should be denied (test for an exchanged cert)
• Minion 4 - occurs as unknown key, needs to be accepted (shared Key with Minion 2)
• Minion 5,6 - using a self created keys and shared config - both getting fqdn and needs to be accepted by salt-key

Terminology

Pillar: a file with dynamic variables, pushed and executed on each minion Salt: a Package (SLS File) which defines a set of actions to be executed on each minion

Getting started

To start work with Salt you need the following commands. But i would suggest to run the tutorials mentioned above first.

vagrant up
vagrant ssh master
sudo su -

check all Minions

salt-key --list-all
salt-key --accept=<key> #or --accept-all
salt '*' test.ping

Apply a Package

salt '*' state.apply examples

Send new Pillars to Minions

salt '*' saltutil.refresh_pillar
salt '*' pillar.items