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.
We will use a new minion called
salt-minionin the staging environment. Create a new state directory in the staging environment calledtomcat.Create and edit
/opt/salt-cookbook/staging/tomcat/package.slsto 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/