Salt Cloud - Install (Legacy Notes)

04/04/2017, I followed the instructions in Salt-Cloud to Spin Up DigitalOcean Resources which uses salt-cloud on the master. This worked very nicely.

See Digital Ocean for instructions.

Warning

The following notes are the old instructions.

Important

These instructions should install version 2015.8.3 (Beryllium)

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-m2crypto sshpass python-software-properties

If the instructions above do not install version 2015.8.3, then try this:

sudo -i
# 14.04
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
# 16.04
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list
# 14.04
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/latest trusty main
# 16.04
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/latest xenial main

sudo apt update
sudo apt install salt-cloud

Configuration files

Warning

The configuration files are kept securely and should never be copied to a public repository e.g. DropBox, GitHub or BitBucket

Note

Replace patrick with your User Name (Checklist)

Note

Replace yb with your Company Abbreviation (Checklist)

sudo -i
cd /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/
sudo ln -s /home/patrick/repo/dev/module/deploy/salt-cloud/yb.profiles.conf .
cd /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/
sudo ln -s /home/patrick/repo/dev/module/deploy/salt-cloud/yb.providers.conf .

Create a Server

You can now follow the appropriate instructions for creating your own cloud server: