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.

1. BLOGLOVIN’
Let Salt saltify itself
Love Nyberg
Site reliability & Automation Engineer
#SaltStackStockholm

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!

4. Install Salt
salt-bootstrap
wget -O install_salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh install_salt.sh -M

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

6. DEMO

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

8. Questions?
Love Nyberg
love@bloglovin.com
@jacksoncage

9. Thanks!
Love Nyberg
love@bloglovin.com
@jacksoncage