Prepareing Salt code

We will be using SaltStack to apply configuration management on both our Jenkins and demo-app web server nodes. We will be using Grains to define which States/Pillars apply to which host. Let us have a look at the code:

States

Note

Please refer to https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Implementing-DevOps-on-AWS/tree/master/5585_05_CodeFiles/CodeCommit/salt/states.

top.sls

The top file shows us that some states are shared between all hosts/roles while others are assigned based on the role:

base: 
  '*': 
    - users 
    - yum-s3 
 
  'roles:jenkins': 
    - match: grain 
    - jenkins 
    - nginx.jenkins 
    - docker 
    - packer 
 
  'roles:demo-app': 
    - match: grain 
    - php-fpm 
    - nginx.demo-app 
    - demo-app

You are already familiar with the users and the yum-s3 States. Now this ...

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