Separate prod and dev environment

[Dillian Murphey]

What's the best practice to manage prod and dev?

A single salt master? Or seperate ones?  

tnx

[Jeremy McMillan]

I would recommend separate salt masters for prod and everything else.

Dev: stuff under development from checked out files under git in various environments, stable stuff from gitfs. Preprod salt master.

QA/UAT: everything from gitfs master branch base env. Preprod salt master.

Prod: everything from SPM, promoted to prod by SPM build jobs at the end of QA/UAT. Prod salt master, -w- pillars under secured source control.

[Dillian Murphey]

Appreciate the reply.  As I'm learning salt stack, it does seems risky to have both on the same server, and easy to inadvertently deploy incorrectly if you're doing command line.