saltbox

A sandboxing mechanism for salt.

salt is an infrastructure-as-code (yaml+jinja) interpreter written in Python. One of the key challenges of working with salt is its "sprawl." It typically requires a superuser run-level and drops files all over the filesystem.

"Sandboxing" is the practice of isolating software related to development so that the development environment doesn't affect system function, and vice-versa. saltbox uses Python's native venv ("virtual environment") mechanism to create a sandbox for salt where it can run unpriveleged and in isolation.

In addition to sandboxing, saltbox provides some developer-friendly features like:

Makes salt "formulas" installable with pip so you can share them easily with other devs.
Venv-wide formula index, with a nice CLI so you can list all available formulas quickly.

Quick start

python3 -m venv ${VENV_DIR} 
source ${VENV_DIR}/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/f0cal/saltbox && \
  cd saltbox && \
  pip install .
saltbox --help