salt-basic-test

This is a demo how to add a cron job and a user to ubuntu instance

Requirements

• install saltstack master and minion
• connect instance as minion to itself
• create logger.sh script with following requirements:
  • find all files in /var/log/ by mask *.log
  • count the number of lines in found files
  • save(append) result in /root/counts.log in the format "datetime|filename|number of lines"
• using salt
  • deploy logger.sh
  • run it every 30 minutes
  • create 3 users
  • allow logon using football ssh key

note: according to requirements only *.log (with dot) will be processed. Files like /var/log/maillog will be ignored.

Install

• login to instanceand get root privileges
• run following command

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vsitnic/salt-basic-test/master/scripts/laisy_install.sh | bash

changes in /etc/salt/ folder

All steps described in this section were added to install script, you don't deed to apply them.

• set file_ignore_glob variable value. It mustbe set to avoid WARNING messages during states execution (file /etc/salt/master)
• set master host in /etc/salt/minion (as per requirement it is localhost)
• set minion ID in /etc/salt/minion_id
• define roles and users in grains file /etc/salt/grains (this doesn't required by salt. I use it in salt states)

demo instance

• ip address : 188.0.232.35
• username : ubuntu
• please use rsa key attached to email