Salt Development Environment in Vagrant

Personal Vagrantfile for SaltStack Development in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Instructions

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

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

2. Edit Vagrantfile to update your local salt repository path and launch ubuntu instance

   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