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Salt Cloud Documentation
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install/index
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Salt cloud is a public cloud provisioning tool. Salt cloud is made to integrate
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Salt into cloud providers in a clean way so that minions on public cloud
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systems can be quickly and easily modeled and provisioned.
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Salt cloud allows for cloud based minions to be managed via virtual machine
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maps and profiles. This means that individual cloud VMs can be created, or
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large groups of cloud VMs can be created at once or managed.
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Virtual machines created with Salt cloud install salt on the target virtual
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machine and assign it to the specified master. This means that virtual
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machines can be provisioned and then potentially never logged into.
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While Salt Cloud has been made to work with Salt, it is also a generic
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cloud management platform and can be used to manage non Salt centric clouds.
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Getting Started
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* :doc:`Installing salt cloud <install/index>`
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Some quick guides covering getting started with Amazon EC2, Digital Ocean,
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GoGrid, Google Compute Engine, Linode, Joyent, Parallels, Rackspace, and
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SoftLayer.
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* :doc:`Getting Started With AWS/EC2 <aws>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Digital Ocean <digitalocean>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With GoGrid <gogrid>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Google Compute Engine <gce>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Linode <linode>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Joyent <joyent>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Parallels <parallels>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With OpenStack <openstack>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With Rackspace <rackspace>`
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* :doc:`Getting Started With SoftLayer <softlayer>`
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Core Configuration
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The core configuration of Salt cloud is handled in the cloud configuration
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file. This file is comprised of global configurations for interfacing with
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cloud providers.
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* :doc:`Core Configuration <config>`
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Windows Configuration
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Salt Cloud may be used to spin up a Windows minion, and then install the Salt
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Minion client on that instance. At this time, Salt Cloud itself still needs to
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be run from a Linux or Unix machine.
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* :doc:`Windows Configuration <windows>`
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Using Salt Cloud
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Salt cloud works via profiles and maps. Simple profiles for cloud VMs are
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defined and can be used directly, or a map can be defined specifying
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a large group of virtual machines to create.
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* :doc:`Profiles <profiles>`
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* :doc:`Maps <map>`
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Once a VM has been deployed, a number of actions may be available to perform
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on it, depending on the specific cloud provider.
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* :doc:`Actions <action>`
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Depending on your cloud provider, a number of functions may also be available
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which do not require a VM to be specified.
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* :doc:`Functions <function>`
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Miscellaneous Options
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=====================
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* :doc:`Miscellaneous <misc>`
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Troubleshooting Steps
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=====================
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* :doc:`Troubleshooting <troubleshooting>`
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Extending Salt Cloud
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====================
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Salt cloud extensions work in a way similar to Salt modules. Therefore
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extending Salt cloud to manage more public cloud providers and operating
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systems is easy.
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* :doc:`Adding Cloud Providers <cloud>`
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* :doc:`Adding OS Support <deploy>`
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Feature Comparison
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A table is available which compares various features available across all
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supported cloud providers.
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* :doc:`Features <features>`
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Legacy Releases
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===============
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.. versionchanged:: Hydrogen
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Release notes will be part of Salt's main release notes starting with
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Salt's Hydrogen release.
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* :doc:`Legacy Release Notes <releases/index>`
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Reference
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* :doc:`Command-line interface </ref/cli/salt-cloud>`
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* :doc:`Full table of contents </contents>`
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