dockerandsalt

A small working example based on the following tutorial:

http://thomason.io/automating-application-deployments-across-clouds-with-salt-and-docker/

It was setup to play with docker and salt in a virtual machine (Virtualbox) provided by Vagrant. The virtual machine is a masterless minion.

Usage

To start the apache docker-image inside the ubuntu-vm virtual machine:

Prerequisites: Install vagrant on your machine

sudo apt-get install vagrant # this will work on debian-based linux-distros

To start:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh ubuntu-vm -c 'sudo salt-call --local state.highstate'

To test:

In your favorite browser open the following url:

http://localhost:8089

and you should see the apache default page.

To inspect:

yourhost% vagrant status # to check the status on your virtual machine
yourhost% vagrant ssh # you can log into the ubuntu-vm with
vagrant@ubuntu-vm:~$ sudo docker images # to list the docker images in the virtual machine
vagrant@ubuntu-vm:~$ sudo docker ps # to list the running docker images

To shutdown:

vagrant@ubuntu-vm:~$ exit # exit out of the virtual machine
yourhost% vagrant halt # to stop the virtual machine
yourhost% vagrant destroy # to delete the virtual machine