[GTALUG] Users in an automated environment

[David Thornton]

You haven't said anything about how users are managed?

If you want to add a user: compose new image and push? Remove a user ,
compose a new image and push? Password expire. .. well you get the idea.

David

David Thornton @northdot9 https://www.quadratic.net
On Apr 2, 2016 8:27 PM, "CLIFFORD ILKAY" <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com> wrote:

> On 02/04/16 06:42 PM, David Thornton wrote:
>
>> In "managing infrastructure with puppet" they defines users in manifests.
>>
>> I've seen user rpms.
>>
>> How do you do it.
>>
>
> I use SaltStack in a masterless minion configuration. I build a base image
> with a BASH script that has enough of the VM that SaltStack can take over
> and do the rest. Here is the SaltStack documentation to manage users. <
> https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.user.html>
>
> I'm also working on eliminating the need to create a custom ISO image from
> which I generate the VM by using Packer <https://www.packer.io/> with the
> SaltStack provider. That will give make it easier for me to have one
> configuration file and a common set of Salt states from which I can target
> various virtualization environments - VirtualBox, VMWare, Hyper-V, Amazon
> EC2, Azure, OpenStack, etc.
>
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>
> Clifford Ilkay
>
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