Watch announcements, demonstrations, and video tutorials on the saltstack youtube channel. Saltstack enterprise seamlessly integrates with a new or existing salt installation. The querystring method is less useful when all files are being cached from the same environment, but is a good way of caching files from multiple different environments in the same command. Salt state functions are what do the work in your salt states, and are the most important thing to master when using saltstacks configuration management system. Top files similar to the state tree, the pillar comprises of. These sites run on phpfpm, and we have several fpm pools. Sep 27, 2016 puppet, chef, ansible and saltstack present different paths to achieve a common goal of managing largescale server infrastructure efficiently, with minimal input from developers and sysadmins. Vulnerabilities in zeromq protocol salt is a powerful pythonbased automation and remote execution engine thats designed to allow users to issue commands to multiple machines directly. Dec 04, 20 it would be nice to have the salt windows package manager support installers that are broken up into multiple files as in the case with disk spanning that is generally made up of a single. You should now have a better understanding of saltstacks configuration management system, with enough knowledge to start writing your own salt states. Contribute to saltstack saltvim development by creating an account on github. Git is an opensource distributed version control system. Salt gitfs loads top files from all branches and tags.
Apr 30, 2020 saltstack is the company that created and maintains the salt open project and develops and sells saltstack enterprise software, services and support. He loves working on open source software and has made multiple appearances as a speaker at the us pycon conference. Its a quite general issue, but this actually prevents using accumulators on states with too much distance, as you may loose the accumulated data if something restarted. Manage information about regular files, directories, and special files on the minion, setread user, group, mode, and data. A collection of tools to render text files into data structures python apache2. Saltstackformulas documentation, release master saltstackformulas project the scope of current project is much wider than management of openstack installations and provides generic formula ecosystem capable of managing multiple heterogenous infrastructures.
Saltstack templating engines, file type or configuration files support the different types of languages. It can be used to keep a track of changes in any files. Oct 05, 2015 a good collection of salt formulas created by the saltstack organization and community can by found in this github account. Salt sends files from git repositories using the git file server. If you are looking for inspiration, the saltstack formula repo contains many examples. Contribute to saltstacksaltvim development by creating an account on github. This page contains instructions to download and install the latest release of saltstack. However the state files sls files are usually stored in srvsalt.
Sep 14, 2016 saltstack configuration management tools and their many functions saltstack is a relatively new tool in the configuration management market with powerful capabilities and an active user community. Your contribution will go a long way in helping us. Salt states can aggressively manipulate files on a system. In this guide, we will configure salt states for the load balancer that will sit in front of our web servers in our staging and production environments. Warning top file merge strategy set to merge and multiple top files found. Saltstack is the company that created and maintains the salt open project and develops and sells saltstack enterprise software, services and support. For example, the below command will cache the first file from the config1 environment, and the second one from the config2 environment. Pdf builds of the docs for each salt release can usually be found on the corresponding release page on github. Templating allows salt formulas and other files to be written in a more flexible manner. The minionfs is a special file server provided by salt for the minions to exchange the files between them. This environment is defined and is used to download files when no other environment is specified. I see some talk about it a couple of years ago but can not find if the functionality. So we wanted to add a simple way to manage several lines in a file, without regex support using replace for that, and we made it with blockreplace. Can saltstack support the backing up of managed files.
All four configuration management tools are designed to reduce the complexity of configuring distributed infrastructure resources, enabling speed, and. Bootstrap works across many platforms and is the easiest way to get started. Many organizations store all of their configuration and resource files under source control for change tracking. Yes, saltstack can support backing up managed files.
This page contains instructions to download and install the 2016. Saltstack configuration management tools and their many functions saltstack is a relatively new tool in the configuration management market with powerful capabilities and an active user community. Documentation home project introduction installation and operations manual. To test the setup and command i created srvsalttmpfoo and placed two files in it. A remote execution engine which handles bidirectional communication for any node within your infrastructure master and minions, and a configuration management system which maintains all infrastructure nodes in a defined state. This state downloads files from the salt master and places them on the target system. So we wanted to add a simple way to manage several lines in a file, without regex support using replace for that, and we made it. Saltstack was born as a bus for highspeed and secure minion agent to master communication it also has agentless mode. Extend salt windows package manager to multiple source files. There are a number of ways in which files can be managed. If you cannot use bootstrap or if you prefer packages, click the tab for your platform.
It would be nice to have the salt windows package manager support installers that are broken up into multiple files as in the case with disk spanning that is generally made up of a single. Colton is a saltstack certified trainer and has worked on the salt open source software for years. An introduction to saltstack terminology and concepts. According to research, saltstack has a market share of about 1. Visit the saltstack platform support site to learn how long a particular operating system and saltstack version will receive official packages, testing, and technical support. Each pool is configured with dedicated file in phpfpm. Source minion has to push the file to the salt master using the cp. The configuration files for the master are in etcsalt, the main one being etcsaltmaster. So if you were using the repos, update now to patch the security exploit on the salt master.
Configuration files for packages other than salt can and should be handled with a salt state using a formula type of package. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds. Functions are available to install and configure applications, create users, distribute files, and about anything else you might need to do when setting up your systems. I would like to add the following lines to all etcsudoers files across my environment. This means that you can use a local text editor and save the file to. Glob or regex to narrow down the files cached from the given path. Saltstack configuration management tools and their many functions.
Saltstack has replaced several disparate legacy tools with a single command and control layer that allows us to automatically roll out new security policies and quickly react to any new security threats. The best way to proceed with the updating of salt minion package is mentioned here. The individual environments can span across multiple directory roots. Filetype plugin with good default config for sls files. The salt state function docs are your best resource to find available functions and arguments salt state functions start with salt. The basic process of crafting an environment, copying files, installing packages and addingchanging or updating a remote hosts configuration is easy to script in saltstack. The reactor files resides in the srvspmreactor directory. Saltstack is also urging users to follow the best practices to secure the salt environment. Using kvm, kickstart, saltstack to provision multiple centos. If youre looking for saltstack interview questions for experienced or freshers, you are at right place. Saltstack using minionfs as the file server tutorialspoint.
Apr 16, 2015 the basic process of crafting an environment, copying files, installing packages and addingchanging or updating a remote hosts configuration is easy to script in saltstack. Configures suitable wrapping, folding and indenting. In the above top file, pillar data in the pkgs file is available to all the minions. Problem scoping, mitigation, and audit is done in hours rather than weeks across our network. Youll have to split those out under 2 id declarations. Its also easy to apply and repeat as needed on any number of host servers.
State the finest way to restart a salt minion with salt after the upgrade. The files in this type of a package are configuration files for salt, which normally live in the etcsalt directory. Templates can use the information available about the minions to construct customized versions of formula or configuration. Test whether the salt process has the specified access to the file. The files served by the minionfs are the files intentionally shared by minions. The l flag lets you set multiple targets as a comma separated. Critical saltstack rce bug cvss score 10 affects thousands. Salt lets you manage files using templates and variables. Our load balancers need to be configured with the web server addresses in order to correctly pass traffic. This server hosts the enterprise api and enterprise console web components, and optionally a salt master.
If you want to update multiple servers at once you can do something like the following. Saltstack architecture the saltstack architecture is designed to work efficiently with numerous servers ranging from the local network systems to the deployment made over the various data centers. So, you still have opportunity to move ahead in your career in saltstack. To share the files, a minion has to follow steps given below. A good collection of salt formulas created by the saltstack organization and community can by found in this github account. Managed files can be rendered as a jinja, mako, or wempy template, adding a dynamic. Puppet, chef, ansible and saltstack present different paths to achieve a common goal of managing largescale server infrastructure efficiently, with minimal input from developers and sysadmins. Download an offline copy of the latest salt documentation. To simplify things, our vagrant file maps the srvsalt directory on your salt master to the local saltvagrantdemomaster saltstack directory. Using kvm kickstartsaltstack to provision multiple centos rapidly.
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