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Mastering SaltStack - Second Edition
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Mastering SaltStack - Second Edition

by Joseph Hall
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
7h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using SDB with Salt Cloud

Salt's simple database system was originally designed with a single idea in mind: to keep passwords out of Salt Cloud configuration files. Of course, they were immediately added to other configuration files as well, but that doesn't diminish their use here.

The classic examples of using SDB to store usernames and passwords still apply, of course:

my-provider: 
  username: sdb://myetcd/username 
  password: sdb://myetcd/password 

But the new env SDB driver will prove valuable to a number of cloud users who make use of environment variables to store their authentication information.

Using SDB with OpenStack

OpenStack users have been making use of environment variables for years to store their personal cloud configuration. It is very ...

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