SaltPad: The WEB GUI your infrastructure deserves

Presentation of SaltPad, a web GUI for SaltStack powered infrastructures.

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1. SaltPad
   Give your infrastructure the web UI it deserves!
   

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2. About me
   • Python Dev
   • DevOps
   • SaltStack enthusiast since
   I discovered it
   • @lothiraldan
   

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3. Salt is awesome…
   

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4. But sometimes…
   

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5. The missing Web UI
   • Job output pretty outputting
   • And a special treatment for state.highstate jobs
   • Management of minions (keys, last runs, pillar)
   • Run job, save job parameters as templates and
   run them with one-click button
   • Accelerate minions debugging
   

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6. Let me introduce you to SaltPad !
   

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7. With a live demo!
   

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8. Internals
   • Use SaltStack API for everything.
   • No DB, jobs templates are stored in salt master
   config.
   • Python Flask application.
   

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9. TODO
   • Some features are not yet implemented.
   • Add some caching to improve responsiveness.
   • Add support for SaltStack API 2014.7.0.
   • Improve the API in order to implement new
   features and improve responsiveness.
   

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10. FOSS for the win!
    • It’s open-source and available here: https://
    github.com/tinyclues/saltpad
    • I would like to thank my employer tinyclues for its
    sponsorship on SaltPad.
    

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11. Questions?
    

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