November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
7h 36m
English
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.
OpenStack users have been making use of environment variables for years to store their personal cloud configuration. It is very ...
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