[njpatel]

At Ayatii we use Salt both for initial configuration and scaling. It's very easy to get setup, and the concepts of States, Pillars and Reactors are easy enough to grasp and start hacking useful utilities for your deployment.

For instance, with a couple lines of Python, I was able to 'react' to any new DigitalOcean instance that was created and able to update DNS records or Nginx config (if it was a certain type of instance). As someone is more of a developer than a infrastructure person, Salt saved me a lot of time.

[stp-ip]

njpatel I would love to get my hands on your python code on the reactor stuff. Still haven't found a real world example for updating loadbalancers or dns.

[njpatel]

I was going to do a blog post but never got around to it! I copy-and-pasted the DNS one we use into a gist (removing specific bits of our setup). We use DO, but this should get you to a point where all the bits are working and then you can do as you wish.

Excuse the Python code...I'm very much not a Python guy! https://gist.github.com/njpatel/8603816

[stp-ip]

Thanks