saltstack-network-formula

Salt Stack Formula to set up and configure a host's network configuration

NOTICE BEFORE YOU USE

• This formula aims to follow the conventions and recommendations described at http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/conventions/formulas.html#conventions-formula and http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/best_practices.html

TODO

• Use more of the available options in interfaces.sls of network.managed
• interfaces: configure broadcast if set

Instructions

1. Add this repository as a GitFS backend in your Salt master config.
2. Configure your Pillar top file (/srv/pillar/top.sls) and your pillars, see pillar.example.sls
3. Include this Formula within another Formula or simply define your needed states within the Salt top file (/srv/salt/top.sls).

Available states

• network.hosts
• network.interfaces
• network.resolver
• network.routes

network.hosts

Sets the static lookup table for hostnames

network.interfaces

Sets the network interfaces configuration

network.resolver

Sets the resolver configuration

network.routes

Manages network routes

Additional resources

None

Formula Dependencies

None

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome. All development guidelines you have to know are

• write clean code (proper YAML+Jinja syntax, no trailing whitespaces, no empty lines with whitespaces, LF only)
• set sane default settings
• test your code
• update README.rst doc

Salt Compatibility

Tested with:

• 2014.1
• 2014.7

OS Compatibility

Tested with:

• GNU/ Linux Debian Wheezy
• CentOS 6 (not completly tested)