Description

Because every Chef needs a little Salt.

Improved Remote Execution for Open Source Chef

Install Salt master and/or minion.

Why would anyone ever want to use both Salt and Chef?

I'm glad you asked!

Open Source Chef is weak in one key area that Salt just so happens to be very
strong: remote execution. knife ssh "name:*" "sudo chef-client" really doesn't
scale very well.

Think of Salt as the Push Jobs plugin for Open Source Chef. They're even based
on the same basic messaging technology: ZeroMQ.

And as of SaltStack 2014.7, they have significantly improved Chef integration.
Want to do a chef client run on all your nodes: salt "*" chef.client Then, you
can use the job management commands to check on the status of your run.

Requirements

Platforms

This cooked has been confirmed to work on:

• Ubuntu 10.04 or later
• CentOS 5+, RedHat 5+, Scientific Linux 5+
• Fedora 19, 20
• Debian 7 (Wheezy)

Dependencies

• apt
• yum
• yum-epel

Attributes

• node['salt']['minion']['master'] - Address or list of masters, if not using built-in search functionality.

See attribute files for more supported attributes.

Recipes

default

Nothing; reserved to include future LWRPs.

master

Install Salt master using OS package manager.

minion

Install Salt master using OS package manager.

Resources/Providers

Usage

Define two roles named salt_master and salt_minion, which include the corresponding
recipes. The nodes will automatically discover each other within the same environment
(when using Chef Server).

If you want your Salt Masters to operate across all environments, set
node['salt']['minion']['master_environment'] to nil for all minions.

At the moment, you will need to approve access for any minions with the salt-key -A command. A future version of this cookbook
will handle this automatically.

Examples

License and Author

Author:: Daryl Robbins

Copyright:: 2014, Daryl Robbins

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.