Deploy elasticsearch using saltstack.

This repository is meant to be used as a local development environment. Easiest way to get started is to use virtualbox provider.

vagrant up

Vagrant environment will also deploy a dedicated saltmaster VM, in order to reflect realistic production setup. However, we do not pre-seed minion keys, allowing minion to generate new certificate requests upon each vagrant up. Therefore, developer must accept key manually within the saltmaster VM.

vagrant ssh saltmaster
sudo salt-key -L
sudo salt-key -A -y
salt '*' test.ping

Note that developer does not need superuser privileges to use salt execution modules as vagrant user. This is due to pre-configured ACL within salt-master config file. However, local system administration tasks (e.g. accepting certificate requests) still require elevation. You can deploy elasticsearch cluster within saltmaster VM once the vagrant environment is operational.

salt '*' state.highstate

This deployment has been tested on a PC host with following specs:

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
• 16GB RAM
• 100Gig-ish free disk space
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Vagrant 1.8 and 1.9
• Functional internet connection (10-50Mbit/s)