How To Create Your First Salt Formula

Introduction A novel method for infrastructure management, Salt is a completely open source configuration management and remote execution tool. It is not only simple enough to be operational within minutes, but is also scalable enough for managing a large number of servers and is speedier enough for communicating with all of them within seconds. Salt is…

Installation of Chef and Ruby with RVM on a Ubuntu VPS

Introduction Ruby based Chef is an open source  framework & tool which allows great automation of your server management, as well as quick installation of preconfigured VPS without the need for you to remember precisely how to configure them.This is very important as it is now commonplace to have different testing, database, production and development servers…

Installation of Salt on Ubuntu 12.04

Introduction A novel method for infrastructure management, Salt is a completely open source configuration management and remote execution tool. It is not only simple enough to be operational within minutes, but is also scalable enough for managing a large number of servers and is speedier enough for communicating with all of them within seconds. Salt is…