saltenv Demonstration

This repo contains some artifacts to show off some basic saltenv functionality. This example uses works with some basic dotfiles for vim and kubectl, but could certainly be changed/extended for more robust use cases.

About saltenv

saltenv is a Salt binary installation and management tool, inspired by tfenv

saltenv allows users to easily install multiple salt binaries built with tiamat. This is useful for standalone machine (desktop/laptop) configuration where the full Salt installation isn't warranted or necessary.

saltenv is built as a POP application, which allows it to leverage other POP plugins in the ecosystem or plug into other applications as necessary.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• A Linux system (or the code can be tweaked for multi-platform support)

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment (optional)

python3 -m venv saltenv
source saltenv/bin/activate

2. Install saltenv

pip install saltenv

Initialization

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1. Initialize the saltenv environment, which installs a salt wrapper script and a helpful minion configuration for standalone salt call use

saltenv init

2. Install the Salt binary for version 3004

saltenv install 3004

3. "Use" the 3004 binary, which points the salt wrapper script at the downloaded binary

saltenv use 3004

4. Ensure the wrapper script can be used (follow PATH procedures for your shell)

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.saltenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

5. Run a quick test! This should return version 3004

salt call test.version

Configuring a system

NOTE: This procedure will overwrite your .vimrc file if present. Be sure to back it up prior to running this command, or you'll need to retrieve it from the minion cache location in ~/.saltenv

1. Clone the demo repository

git clone https://github.com/eitrtechnologies/saltenv-demo.git
cd saltenv-demo

2. Run a highstate

salt call state.apply

3. Celebrate!

More information on how this works is on the EITR Technologies Blog