Last week we talked about how to make use pillar to create users in our master-less salt server. Today will be about how to use salt-formula and grains. All SaltStack Article

Last week we talked about creating a simple httpd service when we spin up our vagrant VM. This week I will continue to talk more about Salt.

• SaltStack software orchestrates the build and ongoing management of any modern infrastructure.
• SaltStack is also the most scalable and flexible configuration management software for event-driven automation of CloudOps, ITOps and DevOps.
• SaltStack is one of the top configuration management framework among Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack.

Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. Most PHP IDE has built in integration with Xdebug, it works as below:

• set breakpoints at IDE
• click debug
• resume and continue to next breakpoint

So there is a strange behavior in using vagrant for my work. That is when I start vagrant before starting vmware, it will not find the correct path to the vagrant box and thus create a new VM.