https://shocksolution.com/tags/salt/Recent content in Salt on shocksolution.comHugoen-usMon, 13 Apr 2020 12:53:00 +0000https://shocksolution.com/posts/dynamic-node-groups-with-salt/Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:53:00 +0000https://shocksolution.com/posts/dynamic-node-groups-with-salt/<p>Salt is a great choice for a configuration management system. I have found that it scales well, both in terms of number of nodes, and complexity of configurations. However, I have found one aspect of Salt that remains under-developed: Salt doesn&rsquo;t have great support for custom groupings of minions. Minion groups (which could also be called node groups, host groups, instance groups, etc.) allow you to target a predefined group of minions.</p>https://shocksolution.com/posts/managing-remote-servers-with-salt-ssh/Mon, 13 May 2019 21:20:37 +0000https://shocksolution.com/posts/managing-remote-servers-with-salt-ssh/<p>I love using <a href="https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/">Salt</a> to configure and manage servers at scale. Typically, a Salt master server manages an army of servers which are on the same private network. A salt-minion daemon runs on each client server and communicates with the master. Sometimes you need to manage a server which is outside of your internal network, such as a marketing web server running on a service like AWS LightSail, Linode, or Digital Ocean. That&rsquo;s when salt-ssh comes in handy.</p>