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Getting Started With Joyent¶

Joyent is a public cloud provider supporting 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:
    provider: joyent
    user: fred
    password: saltybacon
    private_key: /root/joyent.pem

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...