salt-cloud
Provision virtual machines in the cloud with Salt
salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map
salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map NAME
salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map NAME1 NAME2
salt-cloud -p PROFILE NAME
salt-cloud -p PROFILE NAME1 NAME2 NAME3 NAME4 NAME5 NAME6
Salt Cloud is the system used to provision virtual machines on various public clouds via a cleanly controlled profile and mapping system.
The location of the Salt configuration directory. This directory contains
the configuration files for Salt master and minions. The default location
on most systems is /etc/salt
.
Perform an action that may be specific to this cloud provider. This argument requires one or more instance names to be specified.
Perform an function that may be specific to this cloud provider, that does not apply to an instance. This argument requires a provider to be specified (i.e.: nova).
Select a single profile to build the named cloud VMs from. The profile must be defined in the specified profiles file.
Specify a map file to use. If used without any other options, this option will ensure that all of the mapped VMs are created. If the named VM already exists then it will be skipped.
When specifying a map file, the default behavior is to ensure that all of the VMs specified in the map file are created. If the --hard option is set, then any VMs that exist on configured cloud providers that are not specified in the map file will be destroyed. Be advised that this can be a destructive operation and should be used with care.
Pass in the name(s) of VMs to destroy, salt-cloud will search the configured cloud providers for the specified names and destroy the VMs. Be advised that this is a destructive operation and should be used with care. Can be used in conjunction with the -m option to specify a map of VMs to be deleted.
Normally when building many cloud VMs they are executed serially. The -P option will run each cloud vm build in a separate process allowing for large groups of VMs to be build at once.
Be advised that some cloud provider's systems don't seem to be well suited for this influx of vm creation. When creating large groups of VMs watch the cloud provider carefully.
Execute a query and return some information about the nodes running on configured cloud providers
Execute a query and print out all available information about all cloud VMs. Can be used in conjunction with -m to display only information about the specified map.
Display a list of locations available in configured cloud providers. Pass the cloud provider that available locations are desired on, such as "linode", or pass "all" to list locations for all configured cloud providers
Pass in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This outputter can be any of the available outputters:
highstate
,json
,key
,overstatestage
,pprint
,raw
,txt
,yaml
, and many others.
Some outputters are formatted only for data returned from specific functions.
If an outputter is used that does not support the data passed into it, then
Salt will fall back on the pprint
outputter and display the return data
using the Python pprint
standard library module.
Print the output indented by the provided value in spaces. Negative values disable indentation. Only applicable in outputters that support indentation.
Force colored output
Note
When using colored output the color codes are as follows:
green
denotes success, red
denotes failure, blue
denotes
changes and success and yellow
denotes a expected future change in configuration.
To create 4 VMs named web1, web2, db1, and db2 from specified profiles:
salt-cloud -p fedora_rackspace web1 web2 db1 db2
To read in a map file and create all VMs specified therein:
salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map
To read in a map file and create all VMs specified therein in parallel:
salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -P
To delete any VMs specified in the map file:
salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -d
To delete any VMs NOT specified in the map file:
salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -H
To display the status of all VMs specified in the map file:
salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -Q
salt-cloud(7) salt(7) salt-master(1) salt-minion(1)