salt_cloud_upcloud

Allows for provisioning UpCloud virtual servers with salt.

Pre-requisites

Install the following:

• upcloud-python-api

(You can just use pip install upcloud-api for that).

Configuration

Required provider parameters:

• api_user
• password

Other parameters:

• ssh_pubkey: a key to copy to the new machine
• location: which datacenter to use,
• size: one of plan_XXX or the numeric sizes, call salt-cloud --list-sizes upcloud to find out the sizes
• extra_storage: a list of blank max_iops disk to add, with size in gigabytes.
• login_user: the user to create for login
• ip_addresses: configuration about network interfaces/ip addresses. Each contains a access with public or private, and a family with either IPv4 or IPv6``
• control_from_inside: if we should connect back using one of the inner interfaces. This won't work if the salt minion is at an outside network, the default is False but that won't work if there is no public ip address

Implementation status

So far only the most basic functionality has been implemented, more to come.

Bad Git hygiene

The first few commits have been incredible boring, that's because because we were deploying the scripts for testing via the CI/CD pipeline. Sorry ;-(