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Mastering SaltStack

By : Joseph Hall
Book Image

Mastering SaltStack

By: Joseph Hall

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering SaltStack
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Naming conventions


An important aspect of the SLS organization is a sensible naming structure. As we have seen, when components are named generically, it is less likely that they will need to be renamed at a later point. However, when a component is named explicitly, it is more likely that a user who is unfamiliar with the SLS tree will understand what it is trying to accomplish.

A good naming convention strives to strike a balance between the oil and water of generic versus explicit. To borrow from the food and chemistry worlds, a good naming convention is the emulsifier that binds everything in a recipe or formula together.

Generic names

Before starting out with an SLS tree, let's try to plan out as many of the primal components as possible. As an example, a modern infrastructure may reasonably include the following components:

  • A load balancer

  • A database server

  • A web server

  • A firewall

  • An application code base

  • An e-mail server

We will start with names that reflect these primal components before moving...