A 5-minute introduction to using Vagrant and Salt together. As a Python developer, I find Salt much more friendly to my way of development. The ideas here are based on Christian Nygaard's blog post on Quora. http://cnygaard.quora.com/Using-Vagrant-and-Salt-stack-together

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Automating Development with
Vagrant and Salt
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Copyright © 2013. Sumanth Vepa.

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3. What is Vagrant?
Why Use Vagrant?
http://www.vagrantup.com/
• Isolate dependencies
Setup a development environment
• Quickly
• Reproducibly,
• and, in a Controlled way.
• Reproducible environment
• Disposable – test and
discard and recreate
quickly
• Versionable – keep your
environment versioned
• Shareable
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4. Using Vagrant
On the host
$ mkdir vagrant-test; cd vagrant-test
$ vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
On the guest
vagrant@precise32:~$ ls /vagrant
Vagrantfile
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On the host
$ ls ./vagrant-test
Vagrantfile
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5. Configuring the environment – simplistic
Vagrantfile
bootstrap.sh
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6. (Very) Brief overview of Salt
• Distributed configuration
management
• Rapid deployment across large
numbers of hosts.
• Uses Python as the implementation
language.
Salt master
Salt
minion
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Salt
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7. Configuring the environment with Salt
On the host: One additional package
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt
Create the salt configuration
$ cd test-vagrant
$ mkdir –p ./salt/roots
$ touch salt/minion
$ touch salt/roots/apache.sls
$ touch salt/roots/top.sls
Vagrantfile
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8. Configuring the environment with Salt
Additions to the Vagrantfile for Salt
./salt/minion
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./salt/roots/top.sls
./salt/roots/apache
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9. More information
Vagrant: http://vagrantup.com
Salt: http://www.saltstack.com/
Salt+Vagrant: nygaard.quora.com/Using-Vagrant-and-Salt-stack-together
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