Activities

Somewhere between usage, process checklists, and Provis Makefile documentation.

Project

Create a new repository

See Contributing.

• [x] Create a new git repository
  • [x] git init
• [x] Fork an existing repository
  • [x] git clone https://path/to/gitrepo
  • [x] git checkout -b feature_branch_name

Create a new package

• [x] Create templated Python package
  • [x] pip install cookiecutter
  • [x] cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git
  • [x] README.rst
  • [x] AUTHORS.rst – Authors / Contributors
  • [x] CONTRIBUTING.rst –

Create project documentation

• [x] Create Sphinx documentation set
  • [x] docs/conf.py – Sphinx build configuration
  • [x] docs/Makefile – Sphinx Make file
  • [x] docs/index.rst – Sphinx ReStructuredText Index
  • [x] docs/readme.rst – Sphinx README
  • [x] docs/authors.rst – Credits
  • [x] docs/tools.rst – Tools Catalog Notes (homepage, documentation, source)
  • [x] docs/installation.rst – Installation Procedure
  • [x] docs/usage.rst – Usage (Makefile)
• [x] Create Seven Layer Model pages
  • [x] docs/goals.rst
  • [x] docs/products.rst
  • [x] docs/activities.rst
  • [x] docs/patterns.rst
  • [x] docs/techniques.rst
  • [x] docs/tools.rst
  • [x] docs/scripts.rst
  • [x] Add {...} to docs/index.rst

Usage

Setup host machine

• [x] Install Ubuntu 12.04

• [x] Update and upgrade Ubuntu 12.04

• [x] Download OS netboot ISOs

• [x] Configure OS package mirrors

  • [x] Find a drive with storage
  • [x] Install apt-cacher-ng
    • [x] Cherrypick apt-cacher-ng binary from trusty (HTTPS support for docker apt repos)
    • [ ] dpkg-divert /usr/sbin/apt-cacher-ng

• [x] Install tools (make setup_tools)

  • [x] Review Tool Homepage, Source, Docs (docs/tools.rst)

  • [x] Script installation (scripts/install_tools.sh)

    • [x] Install Python, Ruby, Go, Git, Wget:

      apt-get install python ruby golang-go git wget
      

    • [x] Install Vagrant

    • [x] Install Packer

    • [x] Install Docker

    • [x] Install VirtualBox

Configure networking and DNS

• [ ] /etc/network/interfaces (salt)
  • [ ] Ethernet interfaces
  • [ ] DHCP IP addresses
  • [ ] Static IP addresses
  • [ ] IP routes
  • [ ] IP tunneling
• [ ] /etc/network/interfaces.d (TODO)
• [ ] Configure DNS
  • [ ] /etc/host.conf (salt)
  • [ ] /etc/hosts Hosts file (salt)
  • [ ] /etc/hostname (salt)
  • [ ] /etc/resolv.conf (resolvconf, salt)
  • [ ] /etc/resolvconf/interface-order
  • [ ] /etc/resolfconf/{base, head, tail}

Create virtual image

• [ ] Create new [VirtualBox]/[Vagrant] basebox with Packer
  • [ ] Script image build with Packer and packer/scripts.
    • [x] setup shell scripts
    • [x] vagrant (SSH errors)
    • [x] vagrant FS errors
    • [x] VirtualBox guest tools image (~NTP)
    • [x] etckeeper
    • [x] ufw
    • [x] Apt.conf (apt proxy copied from preseed: apt.create.wrd.nu)

Provision vagrant image instance

• [ ] Create Vagrantfile for launching VirtualBox Vagrant basebox
  • [x] Create a new Vagrantfile: vagrant init
  • [x] Configure virtualbox networking support (Vagrant)
    • [x] Rod: eth0 NAT, eth1 Bridged to host eth0, eth2 Host-Only
  • [x] Configure vagrant salt provisioning bootstrap
  • [ ] Configure DNS support
• [x] Launch virtual instance: vagrant up [<hostname>]
• [x] Provision with salt: vagrant provision [<hostname>]
• [x] Shudown with salt: vagrant halt [<hostname>]

Bootstrap salt minion

• [x] Bootstrap salt installation

• [x] Configure salt minion ID

  • [ ] /etc/hosts “salt”

  • [ ] Set minion ID in /etc/salt/minion

  • [ ] Set minion ID in /etc/salt/minion_id:

    hostname --fqdn | sudo tee /etc/salt/minion_id
    

• [ ] Configure for standalone minion setup

  • [ ] Check file_roots and pillar_roots in /etc/salt/minion
  • [ ] Verify that salt files are in /srv/salt and /srv/pillar

• [ ] Configure for master/minion setup

  • [ ] DNS resolve ‘salt’

  • [ ] Set master: in /etc/salt/minion.conf

  • [ ] Pair salt minion/master keys:

    salt-key --help
    

• [x] Run salt

  • [x] Run salt locally as a standalone minion:

    salt-call --local grains.items
    

  • [ ] Run salt from master:

    salt 'minion_id' grains.items
    

  • [ ] Run salt over SSH:

    salt-ssh 'minion_id' grains.items
    

Bootstrap salt master

• [x] Bootstrap salt installation
  • [ ] TODO

Create salt environment

• salt/top.sls
• pillar/top.sls

Create salt formula

• [ ] Create configsets

Test bootstrapped setup

• [ ] Create basic functional network tests
  • [ ] Python standard library sockets
  • [*] ICMP
  • [*] TCP Ports
  • [*] TCP Banners
  • [*] HTTP GET 200 OK