Salt Stack - Subhankar Sengupta
- 2. My Intro ● SysOps guy since 2002, started in a typical startup, a web-hosting company and daily firefight ● Landed up in JP Morgan, Sabre Inc etc. ● Started JBUG –Bangalore (Jboss User Group) in 2010 ● Why CM? Don’t want to be harassed admin
- 3. What does Salt stack do? Simple things 1) Configuration Mgmt ● user ● package ● file ● service etc 2) Remote execution When you install Saltstack you get both
- 4. About the project ● Open Source ● Written in Python ● Uses YAML for cm syntax, called salt states ● Very fast communication system so rapidly scales ● Most Important ○ Viable things are fundamentally SIMPLE ○ Salt is simple
- 5. Some vocabulary ● The master is the Salt server ● The minions are the target machines that will be provisioned ● Each minion has an unique ID ● Asynchronous communication ● SALT’s configuration files are called states, easy to read and understand ● Multiple states can be applied to each minion ● Modules are collection of function that could be run from Salt CLI ● Information collected by minion about the system is Grain
- 6. ● Grain- Information collected by minion about the system ● You could write custom grain Shows which grains are defined on a host
- 7. Show the value of all grains on a given host
- 8. Installation is a cake walk kkk
- 9. Packages ● Alternatively installation could be done using RPM or Apt ● Three Packages ○ Salt - (In all nodes) ○ Salt-minion - (In all nodes) ○ Salt-master- (Only in master server)
- 10. Check it
- 11. How it works? Pub-Sub Pub Salt Master Minion-FQDN- 1 Minion-FQDN- 2
- 12. How it works? ● When master process started it creates a socket ● When minion process starts it connects to that master socket and looks for event ● Master publishes event and minion subscribes to listen to that, hence Pub- Sub ● This communication is done by a high speed channel ● ZeroMQ ● This communication channel is secure ● Minion and master exchange keys using AES encryption
- 13. Remote Execution ● usr/bin/salt- salt <minion-id> <module> ● Salt comes with a rich set of modules ● You could write your own in python ● Module has access to salt data structure ● salt * sys.doc test.ping (Help Files)
- 16. Run an arbitrary shell command Or a module
- 17. Salt Cloud ● Started as a separate project to use salt to manage cloud VMs ● Starting with the 2014.1.0 release of Salt, Salt Cloud is built into Salt ● Uses python-libcloud ● AWS XYZ Provider Profiles
- 18. Again Vocabulary Cloud provider is used to specify basic authentication information to access a cloud provider.
- 19. Again Vocabulary-2 Cloud profiles is used to specify specific virtual machine requirements, such as size, image, and location.
- 20. Q and A Drop an email: [email protected]