Nodetypes

Nodetypes

• Your choice for nodetype is one of:

  scratch (default) : only manage the ansible/salt installation and configuration.
  You ll want to activate this mode if you want to apply explicitly your states without relying of default nodetypes configuration.

  server : matches a baremetal server, and manage it from end to end (base packages, network, locales, sshd, crond, logrotate, etc, by default)

  vm : VM (not baremetal), this is mostly like server

  lxccontainer : matches a lxc container mostly like server but install and fix lxc boot scripts

  laptop : mostly like server but also install packages for working on a developement machine (prebacking a laptop for a dev

  dockercontainer : matches a VM (not baremetal), this is mostly like server, but install & preconfigure circus to manage daemons.

  devhost : development machine enabling states to act on that, by example installation of a test local-loop mailer.

  vagrantvm : flag vagrant boxes and is a subtype of devhost

• You can tell boot-salt2.sh which nodetype to use via the --nodetype switch

  boot-salt2.sh --nodetype server --reconfigure
  

Switching to another nodetype on an already installed environment

• If you installed the scratch preset and want to switch to another preset:

  bin/salt-call state.sls makina-states.nodetypes.<your_new_preset>
  

• If you installed a preset and want to switch to another preset:

  • edit etc/makina-states/nodetype and put your new preset
  • edit etc/makina-states/nodetypes.yaml and set to false your old preset

  • Ask bootsalt to remember

    boot-salt2.sh --nodetype <your_new_preset> --reconfigure
    

  • Finally, run:

    bin/salt-call state.sls makina-states.nodetypes.<your_new_preset>