Use Kitchen-salt for testing I have put off learning how test-kitchen works with salt formulas for a while. Mainly due to the multi-step setup process that can be slightly confusing if you are not accustomed to working with developer tools day to day. It became clear though that learning this workflow would be really beneficial for developing salt-formulas and other projects because of the increased testing speed and the ability to quickly iterate changes without building bulky VM infrastructure.

Deploy Graylog using SaltStack and supporting formulas I ’ve written a formula for deploying Graylog with additional Salt formulas for Elasticsearch and MongoDB, which support a Graylog install. Currently, this has only been deployed on CentOS 7 so the Salt states are pretty specific to CentOS and RHEL based distros. There are plans to expand support to Debian distros in the future though. Both the Elasticsearch and MongoDB formulas can be used on their own, while the Graylog formula can be used in conjuncture with or deployed after the other requirements have been satisfied.

Upgrading the Salt Minion For installation, follow the instructions on the saltstack website Upgrade the Windows salt-minion Login to the salt-master server and cd to the files directory cd /srv/salt/server-base/file Download the latest version from the SaltStack Website (https://repo.saltstack.com/) wget https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2016.11.1-AMD64-Setup.exe Copy the newest version out to all the Windows servers based on architecture salt -C 'G@os:win* and G@cpuarch:AMD64' cp.get_file 'salt://server-base/files/Salt-Minion-2016.11.1-AMD64-Setup.exe' 'C:\Downloads\Salt-Minion-2016.11.1-AMD64-Setup.exe' Run the install as a background job so it completes (update salt-master with your salt-master’s DNS name or IP)

Setup Salt Components on CentOS 7 Setup Note: This guide is basically copied from the salt docs https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/rhel.html. The only reason for it to exist is to expand on the RHEL/CENTOS 7 post install specifics for adding firewall rules and enabling the service. Import SaltStack GPG-KEY rpm --import https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/7/x86_64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub Setup SaltStack repo file Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/saltstack.repo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/saltstack.repo Insert this text [saltstack-repo] name=SaltStack repo for RHEL/CentOS $releasever baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/latest enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub Install the salt-minion, salt-master, or other Salt components: