saltconf16 salt example

Assumes VMs exist named:

  - web1
  - web2 (shutdown)
  - mysql1
  - balancer1

First download the salt formulas used

mkdir /srv/forumlas
cd /srv/formulas
git clone https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/apache-formula.git
git clone https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/haproxy-formula.git
git clone https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/mysql-formula.git
git clone https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/php-formula.git

Configure salt master to use formulas and configure reactors

cp master.d/* /etc/salt/master.d/

Restart salt-master to activate master.d files

systemctl restart salt-master

Activate pillar files

cp pillars/* /srv/pillar

Copy states and top file to where salt can use them

cp -r states/* /srv/salt/

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Deploy environment (web1, mysql1, balancer1)

salt-run state.orchestrate orch.stackdeploy

Create load on loadbalancer. This causes monitoring script on web1 to notice the

load over threshold, and sends a message to the salt bus. The salt master reacts

to the event and spins up the additional web server and configures it as a duplicate of

web1.

ab -t 600 -n 1000000 -c 100 IP-OF-balancer1

Run simulated patch operation on web1 (host was just created so there isn't much to

patch.

salt-run state.orchestrate orch.patch-web 'pillar={"target":"web1"}'

Run salt module to gather OS data and save to & seperated values file

(Announced at saltconf16 Proper compliance reporting project: [http://hubblestack.io/])

salt '*' coalfire.report --output newline_values_only > /tmp/report.csv