Salt Cloud is Here!

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Thomas S Hatch

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Jul 13, 2012, 3:39:57 PM7/13/12
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The initial public release of Salt Cloud is finally here! 0.6.0 was posted to pypi and github just moments ago.

Salt Cloud is a generic cloud provisioning tool which can hook into existing cloud management systems. Salt Cloud also automates setting up the Salt Minion on the provisioned cloud VMs and connecting them back to the Salt Master.  Individual VMs can be easily and quickly provisioned or a mapping of what vms need to exist can be defined and then enforced.

The same module loading system used in Salt is used to make adding support for more cloud providers is amazingly easy. This release comes with support for three cloud providers, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, and Linode.

The documentation for Salt Cloud is up on Read the Docs and can be found here:

The source can be downloaded from pypi or github as usual for Salt projects:

The release notes can be found here:
 
Follow and fork Salt Cloud on github, like Salt itself Salt Cloud has a ton of room to grow and contributions are very welcome!

- Thomas S Hatch

Alec Koumjian

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Jul 13, 2012, 3:41:14 PM7/13/12
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Woohoo! I've been busy, but I can't wait to test this out. 

Matt Ryan

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Jul 13, 2012, 6:03:43 PM7/13/12
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Awesome - I'm pretty excited to give this a try.
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-Matt Ryan

Jeff Bauer

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Jul 14, 2012, 10:53:26 PM7/14/12
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Very cool. I'll be interested in exploring Salt Cloud with EC2
and Linode soon.

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon, Inc.

Christer Edwards

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Jul 16, 2012, 12:57:09 PM7/16/12
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Thomas S Hatch <that...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The initial public release of Salt Cloud is finally here! 0.6.0 was posted
> to pypi and github just moments ago.
...

I just packaged salt-cloud in Arch Linux AUR for anyone interested in
testing the package. Please let me know what issues you run into and
I'll look into them.

Christer

Thomas S Hatch

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Jul 16, 2012, 12:59:29 PM7/16/12
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W00t! Thanks Christer!

Thomas S Hatch

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Jul 16, 2012, 1:00:01 PM7/16/12
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I should say, this is the first salt-cloud package! Christer wins!
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