Automatically Provision Vagrant Virtual Machines as Salt Slaves

Create a new, fully configured virtual computer in less than a minute. Keep configuration in version control. Manage trough configuration management system.

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Kali as Salt Slave – install salt-minion from upstream

Salt is a configuration management system. With Salt, you can control thousands of computers. Kali Linux does not have salt-minion in the default repositories, so you have to install it from upstream.

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Configuration Management Course is Finished

My students have created many interesting projects on configuration management course. The feedback was excellent, 4.6 out of 5. The most common feedback (mode) was 5 out of 5. Thank you! Jussi Isosompppi controlled 2071 slave computers with Salt.

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Simple Secrets in Salt Pillars

This is a simple example for storing secrets in Salt Pillars. If you have a hundred slaves machines, you don’t need to trust them all. Following this tutorial requires working salt master-slave installation and salt states.

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Configuration Management Course Awards 2017: Most slaves: Tommi, most OSes: Matias

Tommi Timonen had the most slaves, a total of 1478 computers. He had 20 physical computers running many virtual computers each. Congratulations Tommi! Tommi also took second place with his previous setup of 639 computers. Third place was Tatu Erkinjuntti … Continue reading

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Tommi's 639 Puppet Slaves

My student Tommi tested Puppet with 639 slaves. Tommi is running some 20 physical computers with about 30 virtual computers each. Tatu has 263 slaves – on a single physical machine with a huge swap file. Who will get 640 … Continue reading

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Windows 10 as a Puppet Slave for Ubuntu 16.04 Master

Puppet can control Windows 10 slaves, making it much easier to administer Windows boxes. This article shows how to configure Windows 10 as a Puppet slave for an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial master.

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Free SSL Certs, 50 Salt Slaves, 5 USD Raspberry Pi, Free Home Automation

Get free SSL cert for your business. Deploy and configure 50 servers to DigitalOcean. Buy RaspBerry Pi Zero for 5 USD (*actual price may vary). Automate your home. Read Ashkan’s thesis while he writes it.

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Salt Master-Minion with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Control Your Slaves over the Internet

Would you like to control many computers (slaves, minions) from one master computer? Salt-minions connect to master to retrieve instructions. Slaves then configure themselves to the target state: they install software, make settings and start daemons.

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