Tag: saltstack

Automation - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

SaltStack and Terraform: Installing Minions in ec2 instances

Terraform is a great orchestration tool and SaltStack is great configuration management software. The first one allows you to create resources in the cloud (instances, load balancer, databases, etc) and the second is used to provision the instances. Salt works in a master-agent mode, the agents are called minions. To provision an instance you have…

Infrastructure as Code - Security & Compliance

Salt and the bash security issue

Yesterday was published a Bash security issue. Details here. So, we needed to upgrade your instance very quickly. Thanksfully, we have SaltStack managing it. The procedure was simple as described below. To update our systems with Salt, just run: salt ‘*’ pkg.install bash refresh=True And to be sure that new nodes are deployed with the…