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Salt Cookbook

You're reading from   Salt Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399740
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anirban Saha Anirban Saha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Salt Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations 3. Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt 4. General Administration Tasks 5. Advanced Administration Tasks 6. Managing Application Servers 7. Managing Databases 8. Configuring Salt Cloud 9. Managing Amazon Web Services 10. Salt Event and Reactor System 11. Troubleshooting Index

Configuring cloud maps


After cloud providers and profiles have been created, it has to be mentioned as to which instances will use which profile. To achieve this task, cloud maps are used. In this recipe, you will learn how to configure cloud maps, and relate profiles with instances.

How to do it...

Edit /etc/salt/cloud.map to have the following entries:

cookbook_ec2_prod_db:
  - cookbookdb01

cookbook_ec2_prod_app_us-west-2a:
  - cookbookapp01
  - cookbookapp03

cookbook_ec2_prod_app_us-west-2b:
  - cookbookapp02
  - cookbookapp04

How it works...

In this recipe, we demonstrated the procedure to configure cloud maps in Salt cloud. The objective of the recipe is to relate the already configured cloud profiles with actual instances, which will be launched in EC2.

The cloud map file can be of any name; here, we named it cloud.map. This file can also be placed under /etc/salt/cloud.map.d/cookbook.conf. The map created is of simple YAML format with the name of the profile first, followed by the host...

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