On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:57:46AM -0500, Sven Semmler wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 04:42:58PM +0000, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 02:17:15PM +0100, unman wrote: > > > Salt is used to provision the qubes at initial install - I'd also argue > > > that you *should* use salt to set up and control your templates and > > > qubes, since it allows you to rebuild your system automatically. No more > > > trying to remember what packages you installed in a template, or how you > > > set up a particular qube. > > > > That sounds excellent. I've never used Salt. Is there a writeup anywhere > > explaining how to use it for setting up & controlling templates? > > I agree. Personally I have a large amount of bash scripts in dom0 to > automate this but it's imperfect and requires still a lot of manual > interventions. I had a very brief look at the salt documentation, which > made clear to me that I have to take a larger amount of time with it and > maybe even buy a book about it. So that hasn't happened yet. > > If there is a basic writeup out there with examples how to automate > tempalte setup for Qubes ... that would be really great. >
I ran some training a few years back, and the notes are here: https://github.com/unman/notes/tree/master/salt They start with the simplest use of `qubesctl`, and work up to quite complex configurations, but should be easy to understand. There are examples in (naturally) "examples". For some real world cases look in notes/config. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20200508132902.GA31625%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
