kleinishere / salt-not-pepper

Learning how to use salt for nginx, django, and db hosting. One step at a time.

Lessons Learned

Salt

• The top.sls is ordered by base (assuming only a base configuration; this is the default - can be sectioned into dev, qa, prod, etc.) then broken down into minions
• Minions are provisioned when the hostname matches (or if you match by grains, or other identifiers; hostname is default); e.g. if you have a breakout for "klein-computer" then the machine with hostname "klein-computer" will receive those provisioning instructions
• "names:" is a way of calling out several things in a single go (rather than calling each ID one by one)
• user.present is a way to create a user; file.absent is a way to delete a file

Vagrant

• the hostname can be set in the config w/ ...vm.config.hostname

ToDo

• figure out how to file.manage multiple files to be copied
• ... it may be as easy as "directory/*"
• figure out how to sync up w/ git via salt
• ...practice this on a few static files in a project
• get a running django instance
• ...figuring out wsgi, figuring out postreg, (wowzers)
• set it up in the cloud!