Salt Cloud

Also see Salt Cloud - Amazon

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto
sudo apt-get install sshpass

Configuration

Requirements

vim requirements.txt

apache-libcloud
salt-cloud

Providers

sudo vim /etc/salt/cloud.providers

my-rackspace-config:
  # Set the location of the salt-master
  #
  minion:
    master: ip-address-or-domain-of-my-salt-master

  # Configure Rackspace using the OpenStack plugin
  #
  identity_url: 'https://lon.identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens'
  compute_name: cloudServersOpenStack
  protocol: ipv4

  # Set the compute region:
  #
  compute_region: LON

  # Configure Rackspace authentication credentials
  #
  user: my-user-name
  apikey: my-api-key

  provider: openstack

Profiles

sudo vim /etc/salt/cloud.profiles

openstack_512:
  provider: my-rackspace-config
  size: 512MB Standard Instance
  image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Install

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto

Virtual Environment

mkvirtualenv --system-site-packages my_virtual_env
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

sudo ~/.virtualenvs/my_virtual_env/bin/python ~/.virtualenvs/my_virtual_env/bin/salt-cloud -p openstack_512 my.temp.server.name

To debug, add:

-l debug