Edit in March of 2020: Hello! This is one of my more popular posts even in 2020, but I'm curious if you came across this post looking for slightly different information than is presented. If so, shoot me a message on twitter: @badgerops or send an email to blog@badgerops.

I've been using the default yaml/jinja combo for most of the time that I've used Saltstack, which can get really frustrating when you're moving away from simple templating and actually starting to develop code in jinja. The biggest issue here: jinja is a templating engine, not a programming language.

Wow, that title is a mouthful - but if you're here, chances are you've been scouring the internet trying to figure out how to get remote LUKS unlock enabled, much like I was a few weeks ago. I finally got all the different parts working as expected, so here you

Hi there! If you've stumbled on this post, you've either been following along with my "Getting started with Saltstack" series using the Salt Workspace environment, or I got lucky with Google's scrapes. In this post we'll discuss GPG encrypting secrets in Salt. Yes, there are other ways to store and

In this blog post, we'll talk about writing a custom Salt Grain, and why you might want to. At my company we had some VM's that had multiple (private) IPv4 addresses set on them, and this broke Consul as it can only bind to a single Private IPv4 address. You

I first wrote this app back in February of 2016 when I first stumbled across resin.io. It worked ok, and I left it running for a couple of months before repurposing the Pi for other uses. Then I saw the announcement for ResinOS and the release of the 2.

Note: please complete the getting started with salt workspace post first! Note #2: This post is designed to work with the 'minimal_base' branch of the salt workspace, so once you've cloned it run this: git checkout minimal_workspace This will ensure you're following along with the exact same code

Welcome to 'getting started with salt-workspace'. Hopefully this, in combination with the salt-workspace git repo will help you get familiar with Salt and its structure in an easy to follow manner. If you haven't already, follow the Readme instructions to get the workspace pre-requisites done, then come back here for