SaltStack Dev Environment

This is my personal SaltStack dev environment setup using Docker containers to launch masters/minions. This is really oriented to my workflow and may not really fit with yours but here it is anyway.

Getting Started

Boot a master first:

docker-compose up -d salt-master

Then you can boot a minion

docker-compose up -d salt-minion

Verify it worked by doing:

docker-compose exec salt-master salt \* test.ping

Resetting everything just run:

docker-compose down -v

The -v flag will remove the pki volume which is important if you are doing a full reset.

Configuration, States and Other Data

Important directories

Master

• data/master/config is where you put the additional configuration for the master and maps to /etc/salt/master.d/
• data/master/pillar you can store your pillar information here and maps to /srv/pillar
• data/master/salt is where your state and other data can do and maps to /srv/salt

The master also has a docker volume called master_pki which maps to /etc/salt/pki and stores the PKI data

Minion

• data/minion/config is the configuration for the minion and maps to /etc/salt/minion.d

Note: I don't store PKI data for minions so once the container is gone their key is lost.

Database

• data/db/init stick your .sql files here and it will be loaded on the first boot

Credits

This is based off of the project here https://github.com/tomwalsh/saltstack-docker-development but it's been heavily modified to fit my personal workflow.