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Salt Cookbook

By : Anirban Saha
Book Image

Salt Cookbook

By: Anirban Saha

Overview of this book

If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Handling archive files


In infrastructure management, we often face situations when a certain package or tool is not available as a system package, but needs to be fetched and extracted to a certain location in the system to be made available for use. To complete these kinds of tasks, often remote commands are used. However, Salt has a solution to this problem, and you will learn how to handle archive files in this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. We will use a new minion called salt-minion in the staging environment. Create a new state directory in the staging environment called tomcat.

  2. Create and edit /opt/salt-cookbook/staging/tomcat/package.sls to have the following entries:

    tomcat-server:
      archive:
        - extracted
        - name: /opt/
        - source: http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/apache/tomcat/tomcat- 6/v6.0.43/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.43.tar.gz
        - source_hash: md5=0abbb1852a608c8b4ccb7003c700337b
        - archive_format: tar
        - if_missing: /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.43/
  3. Apply this state to the minion by running...