Baremetal (via ssh) provision aka salt/saltify¶

As always, the configuration is done via a registry: mc_cloud_saltify / cloud related variables.

This will ssh to the distant box, transfer and run boot-salt.sh (makina-states bootstrap), then install a (master)salt minion and reattach that distant box with the providen id to this salt master.

IOW, We attach distant boxes with the saltify salt-cloud driver. For this, we need to:

indicate the ssh_host user & passwords

indicate which profile to use (minion or mastersalt minion)

Maybe indicate a gateway to each the host to attach

The following modes:

salt (default): Attach the linked box as a salt minion only

mastersalt: Attach the linked box as a masteralt minion. This will also install on it a saltmaster/minion couple.
You can specify the makina-states branch to use with:

bootsalt_branch:

branch name

The idea is to add to your specific minion pillar some salty entries as follow:

# minion id to set and also nick fqdn is after "targets."
makina-states.cloud.saltify.targets.gfoobar.test.com:
  ssh_username: ubuntu
  sudo_password: ubuntu
  password: ubuntu
  ssh_host: 10.5.10.16
  sudo: True
  master: 10.5.0.1 (default to grains['fqdn'])
  master_port: 4506 (default to 4506 or 4606 in mastersalt mode)
makina-states.cloud.saltify.targets.gfoobar2.test.com:
  ssh_host: 10.5.10.15
  mode: mastersalt
  ssh_username: ubuntu
  password: ubuntu
  sudo_password: ubuntu
  branch: stable
  sudo: True
  master: 10.5.0.1
  master_port: 4506

You can even use a ssh gateway to initiate an host behind a firewall:

ssh_gateway: foo
ssh_key: /tmp/id_dsa

To activate the driver you need to install the generic & the saltify formulaes

makina-states.cloud.generic: true
makina-states.cloud.saltify: true

salt (default):	Attach the linked box as a salt minion only
mastersalt:	Attach the linked box as a masteralt minion. This will also install on it a saltmaster/minion couple.