salt/doc/topics/cloud/profiles.rst
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VM Profiles
===========
Salt cloud designates virtual machines inside the profile configuration file.
The profile configuration file defaults to ``/etc/salt/cloud.profiles`` and is
a yaml configuration. The syntax for declaring profiles is simple:
.. code-block:: yaml
fedora_rackspace:
provider: rackspace
image: Fedora 17
size: 256 server
script: bootstrap-salt
It should be noted that the ``script`` option defaults to ``bootstrap-salt``,
and does not normally need to be specified. Further examples in this document
will not show the ``script`` option.
A few key pieces of information need to be declared and can change based on the
public cloud provider. A number of additional parameters can also be inserted:
.. code-block:: yaml
centos_rackspace:
provider: rackspace
image: CentOS 6.2
size: 1024 server
minion:
master: salt.example.com
append_domain: webs.example.com
grains:
role: webserver
The image must be selected from available images. Similarly, sizes must be
selected from the list of sizes. To get a list of available images and sizes
use the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
salt-cloud --list-images openstack
salt-cloud --list-sizes openstack
Some parameters can be specified in the main Salt cloud configuration file and
then are applied to all cloud profiles. For instance if only a single cloud
provider is being used then the provider option can be declared in the Salt
cloud configuration file.
Multiple Configuration Files
----------------------------
In addition to ``/etc/salt/cloud.profiles``, profiles can also be specified in
any file matching ``cloud.profiles.d/*conf`` which is a sub-directory relative
to the profiles configuration file(with the above configuration file as an
example, ``/etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/*.conf``). This allows for more
extensible configuration, and plays nicely with various configuration
management tools as well as version control systems.
Larger Example
--------------
.. code-block:: yaml
rhel_ec2:
provider: ec2
image: ami-e565ba8c
size: Micro Instance
minion:
cheese: edam
ubuntu_ec2:
provider: ec2
image: ami-7e2da54e
size: Micro Instance
minion:
cheese: edam
ubuntu_rackspace:
provider: rackspace
image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
size: 256 server
minion:
cheese: edam
fedora_rackspace:
provider: rackspace
image: Fedora 17
size: 256 server
minion:
cheese: edam
cent_linode:
provider: linode
image: CentOS 6.2 64bit
size: Linode 512
cent_gogrid:
provider: gogrid
image: 12834
size: 512MB
cent_joyent:
provider: joyent
image: centos-6
size: Small 1GB