bigsoftcms / salt-fuse

A FUSE-based filesystem for Salt (Archived)

Salt Fuse

Note: This repository has been archived. It is read-only. See https://github.com/blog/2460-archiving-repositories for more information.

Salt is a powerful infrastructure framework, allowing a master (or masters) to control a group of minions, by issuing remote execution calls. The Salt Fuse project takes advantage of this power by allowing the user to treat remote minions' filesystems as if they were locally mounted on the Salt Master.

This project is in a very early state. The interface is expected to change, as early development continues. Eventually, we plan to reach a state of stability, but until then, it is definitely not recommended to run this project in production.

Requirements

This is a bleeding edge project which requires at least Salt 2014.1 RC1 to be installed on any minion which it connects to.

http://saltstack.com/

The fusepy project (available via pip) must also be installed on the system that creates the Fuse mount.

https://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy

Execution

Create the directory which will hold the mountpoint. The root of this filesystem shows a list of minions. Inside each minion's directory is the root of that minion's filesystem.

sudo mkdir -p /media/salt/
sudo salt-fuse /media/salt/

Road Map

The accomplishment of the following features will determine the accompanying release versions:

0.5.0

Use the fuse mountpoint as a filesystem browser for Windows-based minions, starting with the driver letter (i.e., /media/salt/minion_id/C/WINNT/, etc).

0.6.0

Configure alternate mountpoints for explicitly configured minions, outside of the standard root (i.e., /media/salt/minion_alias/somedir/ points to /path/to/dir/ on the minion).

0.7.0

Allow certain files from the minions to be cached locally, rather than accessed using network I/O.

With the release of 0.7.0, the salt-fuse project will move from alpha status to beta status. Releases after that point may contain new features, but the general focus will be on stability.