Project Description

Saline is an addition for salt used in SUSE Manager/Uyuni aimed to provide better control and visibility for states deploymend in the large scale environments.

In current state the published version can be used only as a Prometheus exporter and missing some of the key features implemented in PoC (not published). Now it can provide metrics related to salt events and state apply process on the minions. But there is no control on this process implemented yet.

Continue with implementation of the missing features and improve the existing implementation:

• provide better description in the github page what is the Saline

• web service providing the control of states deployment

• authentication (need to decide how it should be/or not related to salt auth)

• ssl configuration for the web service (currently it's trying to use existing spacewalk certificate, but there could be some permission issues or security concerns)

Goal for this Hackweek

• Implement missing key features

• Prepare Grafana dashboard for deployment with the formula

• Change the way of configuring ssl for the service to avoid possible security concerns

• Implement the tool for state deployment control with CLI

Resources

https://github.com/vzhestkov/saline