Getting Started With Joyent¶

Joyent is a public cloud host that supports SmartOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.

Dependencies¶

This driver requires the Python requests library to be installed.

Configuration¶

The Joyent cloud requires three configuration parameters. The user name and password that are used to log into the Joyent system, and the location of the private ssh key associated with the Joyent account. The ssh key is needed to send the provisioning commands up to the freshly created virtual machine.

# Note: This example is for /etc/salt/cloud.providers or any file in the
# /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/ directory.

my-joyent-config:
  driver: joyent
  user: fred
  password: saltybacon
  private_key: /root/mykey.pem
  keyname: mykey

Note

Changed in version 2015.8.0.

The provider parameter in cloud provider definitions was renamed to driver. This change was made to avoid confusion with the provider parameter that is used in cloud profile definitions. Cloud provider definitions now use driver to refer to the Salt cloud module that provides the underlying functionality to connect to a cloud host, while cloud profiles continue to use provider to refer to provider configurations that you define.

Profiles¶

Cloud Profiles¶

Set up an initial profile at /etc/salt/cloud.profiles or in the /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/ directory:

joyent_512
  provider: my-joyent-config
  size: Extra Small 512 MB
  image: Arch Linux 2013.06

Sizes can be obtained using the --list-sizes option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-sizes my-joyent-config
my-joyent-config:
    ----------
    joyent:
        ----------
        Extra Small 512 MB:
            ----------
            default:
                false
            disk:
                15360
            id:
                Extra Small 512 MB
            memory:
                512
            name:
                Extra Small 512 MB
            swap:
                1024
            vcpus:
                1
...SNIP...

Images can be obtained using the --list-images option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-images my-joyent-config
my-joyent-config:
    ----------
    joyent:
        ----------
        base:
            ----------
            description:
                A 32-bit SmartOS image with just essential packages
                installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting
                up their own environment and tools.
            disabled:
                False
            files:
                ----------
                - compression:
                    bzip2
                - sha1:
                    40cdc6457c237cf6306103c74b5f45f5bf2d9bbe
                - size:
                    82492182
            name:
                base
            os:
                smartos
            owner:
                352971aa-31ba-496c-9ade-a379feaecd52
            public:
                True
...SNIP...

SmartDataCenter¶

This driver can also be used with the Joyent SmartDataCenter project. More details can be found at:

Using SDC requires that an api_host_suffix is set. The default value for this is .api.joyentcloud.com. All characters, including the leading ., should be included:

api_host_suffix: .api.myhostname.com

Miscellaneous Configuration¶

The following configuration items can be set in either provider or profile confuration files.

use_ssl¶

When set to True (the default), attach https:// to any URL that does not already have http:// or https:// included at the beginning. The best practice is to leave the protocol out of the URL, and use this setting to manage it.

verify_ssl¶

When set to True (the default), the underlying web library will verify the SSL certificate. This should only be set to False for debugging.`