Configuring cloud profiles

Salt cloud profiles are the components that provide more cloud service provider-specific configuration options, and also minion-specific parameters when using Salt cloud. In this recipe, you will learn how to use cloud profile configurations in Salt.

How to do it...

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

cookbook_ec2_prod_db:
  provider: cookbook_ec2_us_west_2
  minion:
    master: salt-master
    environment: production
  image: ami-721b7b42
  script: bootstrap-salt
  sync_after_install: all

  network_interfaces:
    - DeviceIndex: 0
      PrivateIpAddresses:
        - Primary: True
      AssociatePublicIpAddress: False
      SubnetId: subnet-4236c535
      SecurityGroupId:
        - sg-5b35a03e
  grains:
    server_type: db
    environment: production
  tag: {'Environment': 'Production', 'Role': 'Database'}

How it works...

In this recipe, we demonstrated the procedure to configure Salt cloud profiles, and the various attributes involved.

The...