[dev] Re: Adding libcloud support to SaltStack

[anthony shaw <an...@gmail.com>]

I've written a piece on this functionality and what it offers here;
https://medium.com/@anthonypjshaw/using-salt-to-boss-your-clouds-around-de2edb2f793d

This is now finished, anyone that wants to contribute backup or container
modules is more than welcome.

Regards,
Anthony

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 8:46 PM, anthony shaw <an...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been working over the past week to add Apache Libcloud support to the
> open-source project SaltStack. SaltStack has long been a user of Apache
> Libcloud, but it's still using 0.21 (which I'm trying to resolve
> separately).
>
> These PRs are not yet merged but enable any users of libcloud to:
> - Access configured drivers via a simple CLI and all libcloud methods
> - Deploy resources for DNS, Storage and Load Balancer using declarative
> templates, similar to what can be done with Hashicorp Terraform
>
> An overview tutorial is here https://github.com/tonybaloney/salt/blob/
> libcloud_compute/doc/topics/tutorials/libcloud.rst
>
> I have not written the container or backup drivers, or written a state
> module for compute *yet.
>
> Just an early FYI out there to the user base, if you want to try this out
> or help contribute, it's all Apache-2 licensed. This functionality would be
> released in the next version of SaltStack in 3-6 months time.
>
> Regards,
> Anthony Shaw, aka @tonybaloney
>

Re: [dev] Re: Adding libcloud support to SaltStack

[Samuel Marks <sa...@gmail.com>]

Nice work


Samuel Marks
http://linkedin.com/in/samuelmarks

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:22 PM, anthony shaw <an...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've written a piece on this functionality and what it offers here;
> https://medium.com/@anthonypjshaw/using-salt-to-boss-your-clouds-around-
> de2edb2f793d
>
> This is now finished, anyone that wants to contribute backup or container
> modules is more than welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Anthony
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 8:46 PM, anthony shaw <an...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working over the past week to add Apache Libcloud support to
> the
> > open-source project SaltStack. SaltStack has long been a user of Apache
> > Libcloud, but it's still using 0.21 (which I'm trying to resolve
> > separately).
> >
> > These PRs are not yet merged but enable any users of libcloud to:
> > - Access configured drivers via a simple CLI and all libcloud methods
> > - Deploy resources for DNS, Storage and Load Balancer using declarative
> > templates, similar to what can be done with Hashicorp Terraform
> >
> > An overview tutorial is here https://github.com/tonybaloney/salt/blob/
> > libcloud_compute/doc/topics/tutorials/libcloud.rst
> >
> > I have not written the container or backup drivers, or written a state
> > module for compute *yet.
> >
> > Just an early FYI out there to the user base, if you want to try this out
> > or help contribute, it's all Apache-2 licensed. This functionality would
> be
> > released in the next version of SaltStack in 3-6 months time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Anthony Shaw, aka @tonybaloney
> >
>