I remember looking at Ansible way back in 2012/2013 when I began building out DevOps solutions. I wanted something Python based to make it easier for everyone to adapt to and at the time there were really only two major solutions out there, though they were both in very early …
After concentrating on learning Salt over the last few weeks I have been constantly surprised by how simple yet powerful the system is. When I first began, I started by setting up my base configurations (users, iptables, ssh, etc) into states and as I progressed things began getting more and …
One of the first things I needed to get a handle on when I began to use Saltstack was pillar and the various YAML and JINJA formatting techniques. At the time of this writing I didnt see too many beginning to end examples so I thought I would start writing …
What can I say about Saltstack but, WOW! After only using it a couple of days I already have a working CM implementation and not only is it easy to use and incredibly powerful but it is FAST! This is not to say I still dont want to spend more time with …
While there are plenty of Chef tutorials out there I still found myself hunting around for one or two things when setting up my environment so I decided to write this article… Well, it is also for my own selfish reasons as writing these doc’s help to ensure that I …