Using Vagrant with Salty-Vagrant and Multiple virtual machines

Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "precise64"
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
  
  # Deployment instance salt master
  config.vm.define :salt do |salt|
    salt.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.10.10.2"
    salt.vm.hostname = 'master'
	  
    salt.vm.synced_folder "salt/roots/", "/srv/"
    salt.vm.synced_folder "salt/key/", "/etc/salt/keys"
    salt.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2220, auto_correct: true
	  
    salt.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
      v.name = "salt"
      v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
    end

    salt.vm.provision :salt do |config|
      config.minion_config = "salt/minion"
      config.master_config = "salt/master"
      config.minion_key = "salt/key/minion.pem"
      config.minion_pub = "salt/key/minion.pub"
      config.master_key = "salt/key/master.pem"
      config.master_pub = "salt/key/master.pub"
      config.install_master = true
      config.seed_master = {salt: "salt/key/master.pub", app0: "salt/key/minion.pub"}
      config.run_highstate = false
      config.accept_keys = true
      config.verbose = true
      config.bootstrap_options = "-D"
      config.temp_config_dir = "/tmp"
    end
  end


  # appX instance salt ninion
  config.vm.define :app0 do |app0|
    app0.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.10.10.3"
    app0.vm.hostname = "app0"
	  
    app0.vm.synced_folder "salt/key/", "/etc/salt/keys"
    app0.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2221, auto_correct: true
	  
    app0.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
      v.name = "app0"
      v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
    end

    app0.vm.provision :salt do |config|
      config.minion_config = "salt/minion"
      config.minion_key = "salt/key/minion.pem"
      config.minion_pub = "salt/key/minion.pub"
      config.verbose = true
      config.bootstrap_options = "-D"
      config.temp_config_dir = "/tmp"
    end
  end
end

VagrantMultipleMachineWorkspace.md

Description

Have you ever wanted to have a Vagrant workspace with more than one Virtual Machine, and managed by Salt Stack? I did, but the documentation is not all there yet.

I managed to make it work with the following, hope it will be useful.

To use

See the Complete salty-vagrant setup, but use the current Vagrantfile to have two machines.

Files in the workspace

Set the following files in your workspace, at the root of your web development project.

• projectDir/Vagrantfile: The Vagrantfile from this gist
• projectDir/salt/key: A few pem and pub files
• projectDir/salt/roots: Checkout a few salt states as needed
• projectDir/master: Salt master config, generally default do
• projectDir/minion: Salt minion config, if master is called salt, no need to edit.

References

• Salt Stack walkthrough
• Salty Vagrant
• Salty Vagrant: Seed master syntax
• Salty Vagrant: Seed usage

You need to remove the synched folder configuration to /etc/salt/keys:

salt.vm.synced_folder "salt/key/", "/etc/salt/keys"
app0.vm.synced_folder "salt/key/", "/etc/salt/keys"

If you leave these options in place, the salt-master installation modifies permissions on /etc/salt/keys which then prevents the minion from being able to access this shared folder (at least for me when using NFS as the shared folder method given all of the issues with VMWare/HGFS synched folders)

Thanks for the very handy example. Is config.accept_keys = true still valid? I've just tried a similar approach without it and the minions keys had already been accepted by virtue of the seed_master directive.