Installation and Operations Manual

Installation

• Chapter 1. Environment Installation
  • Configuration Node Setup
    • Configuring the Operating System
      • Setting up package repository
      • Configuring Secure Shell (SSH) keys
  • Target Nodes Installation
    • Basic minion Configuration
      • Setting Salt Master host
      • Setting Salt minion ID
  • Install Infrastructure Services
    • Support infrastructure deployment
  • Validate Configuration Node

Configuration

• Chapter 2. Configuration
  • Initial Environment Configuration
    • Linux system setup
      • Basic linux box
      • Linux with defined users (optionaly with password)
      • Linux package installation
      • Linux cron job
      • Linux security limits
      • Enable autologin on tty1
    • Linux Kernel setup
    • Linux repositories setup
    • Linux prompt setup
    • Linux network setup
      • Linux interface/route setup
      • Linux network bridges
      • Other network related configuration
    • Linux storage setup
    • OpenSSH client
    • OpenSSH server
    • Salt minion configuration
    • NTP client

Monitoring

• Chapter 3. Monitoring
  • Monitoring, Metering and Logging
  • Event Monitoring
    • Monitoring Service (Sensu)
  • Collecting Telemetry Data
    • Collectd/Graphite
      • Graphite Metrics Functions
  • Collecting Log Events
    • Heka
    • ElasticSearch
    • Kibana Dashboard

Use cases

• Chapter 4. Use Cases
  • Use Case: Kubernetes
  • Use Case: Openstack