Salt Development Environment in Vagrant

Personal Vagrantfile for SaltStack Development in FreeBSD 10

Instructions

1. Run the following commands in a terminal. Git, VirtualBox and Vagrant must already be installed.

   git clone git@github.com:abednarik/saltdev-freebsd.git
   cd saltdev-freebsd
   

2. Edit Vagrantfile to update your local salt repository path and launch ubuntu instance. Since Vagrant doesn't support synced_folder in FreeBSD make sure NFS Daemon is running.

   vagrant up
   

3. Finally login as vagrant user and install salt using pip in editable module

   vagrant ssh
   sudo su -
   cd salt  
   pip install -e .
   

4. For developing and debugging I use tmux to run salt-master and salt-minion in foreground in error mode [ I mostly add log.error when I want to debug something ]

   sudo salt-master -l error
   sudo salt-minion -l error
   

5. Check if everything went fine

   salt '*' test.ping
   

There is a placeholder state in /srv/salt called default.sls. Just put the content you want to test and run

salt 'salt' state.apply default

This is heavily based on salt-vagrant-demo following official Salt Development Docs