These instructions assume that you have already configured a Salt Master node in your cloud environment.
Salt-cloud is installed with SaltStack. Please refer to the Salt Cloud installation instructions.
Copy etc/salt to /etc/salt of the Salt Master.
Edit /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/cloud_provider.conf and set the variables that the template requires.
You should now be able to list providers:
$ sudo salt-cloud --list-providers
[INFO ] salt-cloud starting
mycloud:
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openstack:
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You can now launch one instance named test with the profile named ubuntu.
$ sudo salt-cloud -p ubuntu test
On the Salt Master -
Creating the instances
$ sudo salt-cloud -m map/demo.map -P
Deleting the instances
$ sudo salt-cloud -m map/demo.map -d