Deploying ElastiCache clusters

One more important feature in present day application management is caching services, and Amazon provides a service for this task called ElastiCache. In this recipe, we will learn how to configure ElastiCache using Salt modules.

How to do it...

1. Create and edit /opt/ salt-cookbook/production/aws/elasticache.sls to have the following entries:

   cookbook-elasticache:
     boto_elasticache.present:
       - engine: redis
       - cache_node_type: cache.t1.micro
       - num_cache_nodes: 1
       - notification_topic_arn: arn:aws:sns:us-west- 2:808429213833:salt-cookbook
       - region: us-west-2
       - keyid: <access-key>
       - key: '<secret-key>'

2. Apply the state to the Salt master by running the following command:

   [root@salt-master aws]# salt 'salt-master.teknification.com' state.sls aws.elasticache saltenv=production
   salt-master.teknification.com:
   ----------
             ID: cookbook-elasticache
       Function: boto_elasticache.present
         Result: True
        Comment:
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