Installation via installer script

The installer script takes care of most setup related tasks.

• salt-master is installed and configured
• salt-minion is installed on minion machines
• cloud-workloads states and pillars are downloaded
• cloud-workloads python package is installed
• first execution of cloud-workloads-runner is performed.

Requirements

• Minion machines should be up and running.
• The master machine should be able to ssh into the minion machines and should be able to sudo without a password.

Usage

wget -O installer.sh <link to come soon>
sudo bash installer.sh

Custom Installation

• Install and configure salt-master on the master machine.
• Install and configure salt-minion on minion machines.
• Accept the minions on the master
• Download cloud-workloads salt states and pillars - link to come soon
• Move uncompressed contents of salt states into the file roots directory
• Move uncompressed contents of salt pillars into the pillar roots directory
• Ensure that the following settings are in the salt master config.

# Our formulas use the salt mine and peer system. Increase or lower depending on
# number of minion machines
worker_threads: 20

# Cloud workloads has to occasionally parse large log files created on a minion.
# This setting allows a minion to push such a log file to the master.
file_recv: True

# Enable peers to execute network commands
peer:
  .*:
    - network.*

# Enable the salt mine
mine_functions:
  network.interfaces: []
  test.ping: []

• Install cloud-workloads - link to come soon
• Setup interfaces on pillar_roots_dir/interfaces.sls