Salt is fully capable of taking care of itself and it’s infrastructure. A short talk about the salt formula mixed with tips and trix from our experience with upgrading and working with salt in a distributed engineering team.
2. BLOGLOVIN’
#SaltConf15
tens of millions of monthly unique visitors
hundred of millions requests per day
couple of million stories parsed per day
Hybrid DC/Cloud
- Bare metal servers
- Cloud VM’s
3. Salt Formulas
Formulas are pre-written Salt States.
https://github.com/saltstack-formulas
Please contribute!
5. For testing purpose
Docker?
Vagrant
git clone git@github.com:saltstack-formulas/salt-formula.git
# Fix pillar file
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
salt salt state.highstate
7. Tips/Trix
- Upgrade Salt master first
- Always specific version on pkg.installed
- Use log_level: debug during updates
- Check change log for all version between
- Updated often new version, both minor and major