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Install Tanzu Community Edition with Salt

This blog post is about two open source projects supported by VMware: Salt and Tanzu Community Edition. Salt is event-driven automation, infrastructure management, configuration management, remote execution and much more. Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users, especially those working in small-scale or pre-production environments. Installing TCE it […]

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vRA SaltStack Config – Pillars

Salt Pillars are key elements to have parametric Salt State files allowing them to be more flexible and reusable. Here is an introduction to Salt Pillar

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vRA SaltStack Config – Top Files

So far we played with Salt State files to apply configurations to Minions and we learned that these are generic by design and describe only what configuration should be achieved. And we used the concept of Targeting to specify where one, or more, State should be applied. In this post I’ll try to cover a different […]

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vRA SaltStack Config – Configure git fileserver

Salt relies on files (e.g. State files, Reactor config files, Pillars, etc.), for this reason it comes with a simple file server suitable for distributing files to the Salt Minions. The file server is a stateless ZeroMQ server that comes with the Salt Master. The main goal of the Salt file server is to present […]

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Consume vRA SaltStack Config API in vRA Extensibility

These are the early days of the integration between vRealize Automation and vRealize Automation SaltStack Config (formerly know as SaltStack Enterprise) and some things are yet to come. For instance, today in the 8.4 version if you deprovision a VM in vRA the related Salt Minion key is not deleted in vRA SaltStack Config, this […]