Annoucement: Terraform module to mimic salt-cloud-like automatic join/leave of VM minions

[sac...@bigbitbus.com]

Hi everyone. 

We wrote a Terraform module to have terraform-spun-up VMs mimic some of the salt-cloud convenience of automatically becoming minions of a specified salt-master and removing themselves as minions when terraform destroys the VMs. 

If you are looking at using Terraform for orchestration and Salt for remote execution/configuration management then this module may be of interest to you.

Documentation 

available here: https://github.com/bigbitbus/terrasalt (FOSS Apache license), 

Examples 

AWS: 

https://github.com/bigbitbus/terrasalt/tree/master/terraform/aws_example 

Azure: 

https://github.com/bigbitbus/terrasalt/tree/master/terraform/azure_example

GCP: 

https://github.com/bigbitbus/terrasalt/tree/master/terraform/gcp_example

Digital Ocean: 

https://github.com/bigbitbus/terrasalt/tree/master/terraform/digitalocean_example

Code for all other clouds supported by Terraform can be easily worked out based on the above examples.

We are looking for feedback, comments on improving/fixing any issues etc.

Thanks.

Sachin

[Ethan Erchinger]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

[James Booth]

This is great! Beats my power shell script wrapper and a custom MSI...