After using SaltStack for around 3 years, it has also been almost a year since became part of SaltStack formulas maintainers. I'd like to
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18/11/2018
12/08/2018
SaltStack Pillar as Terraform external data source - Python
SaltStack is more than a configuration management tool, SaltStack Pillar could have a lot of data which may be needed somewhere else, e.g. Terraform!
So to avoid duplications, and after
15/05/2018
Test configuration management and infrastructure code - CI
Nowadays infrastructure as code became a de facto! IaC is used intensively in the tech world everyday! And since IaC is just a "code" at the end, so it also needs to be tested to make sure everything is working as expected and
24/03/2017
Update htpasswd if changed only - SaltStack
SaltStack has a lot of states and modules, an each one has different options, but some times the state/module doesn't support a certain function, so you have to use another
06/02/2017
Mimic "now + time" in schedule state - SaltStack
SaltStack has a schedule state that allows you to manage scheduled jobs on client (Minion), and it's very handy to manage cron style job.
But sometimes you could need to run a job once, in other words,
25/12/2016
Creating SaltStack modules - Python
One of things I like in SaltStack is his modules system. It's as simple as Ansible modules.
All what you need is creating a module with
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