It turns out that there are a lot of nuances when using Saltstack with VMWare. Let's walk through the requirements for successfully using Saltstack to deploy VMs on VMWare.
To narrow the scope of this post, we'll assume the following is already taken care of.
I've always said that Salt is not configuration management. I want to expand on one of the capabilities that Salt, as a platform, can offer you. That capability lies just under all the salt commands you're accustomed to firing on the command line. It's Salt's Python API, not to be …
Sometimes you need to make a few VMs. For me, it's usually libvirt.
We have some scripting around the creation of a number of machines, but what we don't have (yet) is the ability to add additional disks to those VMs. So instead of chasing each machine in the VM …
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