SaltStack Delivers More Automation for Docker and LXC Application Containers

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Dec 09, 2014, 16:10 ET


Salt Lake City (PRWEB) December 09, 2014 -- SaltStack, the creators of software to automate cloud infrastructure operations, today announced the new SaltStack 2014.7 release includes more automation for the latest versions of Docker and LXC application containers. The new SaltStack application container support now includes management of networked containers adding to existing SaltStack automation for heterogeneous container deployment and management at scale across any cloud or infrastructure.

“SaltStack was built to be the event-driven orchestration engine for the ubiquitous, general-purpose cloud,” said Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO and co-founder. “We provide a data center infrastructure management platform for all the things because data centers are extremely diverse. Today SaltStack is used to manage any cloud, infrastructure, operating system, application, or code. We continue to expand our substantial orchestration support for Docker and LXC application container technologies and we will support other containers like CoreOS Rocket to help IT operations organizations avoid the container version of VM sprawl.”

SaltStack users manage and orchestrate application containers in production today. For example:

The SaltStack 2014.7 release includes the following new support for application containers:

  • Salt Mine delivers a data store for application containers including network info and ports;
  • SaltStack can define and track CPU parameters for hosts running Docker containers;
  • New Salt execution modules and states to call Docker load and save and to install a Docker image from a tar file;
  • SaltStack Runner support to create an LXC cloud;
  • Salt Cloud bootstrap support for installing SaltStack on an LXC container;
  • Support for the latest Docker releases.

Nicole Thomas, SaltStack engineer, wrote a tutorial to explain how SaltStack can be used to manage Docker at scale on any infrastructure or cloud. The article provides a step-by-step guide to implementing a simple SaltStack and Docker environment used to run a PHP application with HAProxy and Apache. With this setup, information about each Docker container IP address and exposed port can be easily obtained and used for production-ready, real-world orchestration. A video demo, showing hundreds of containers under management, and the tutorial are both available from this blog post titled, “Using SaltStack in production to manage Docker application containers.”

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SaltStack is a complete systems management software platform for fast and scalable automation of any cloud, application stack or data center infrastructure. Specifically, SaltStack is used by system administrators and developers to automate configuration management, private cloud building, public cloud orchestration and autonomic infrastructure. The Salt open source project was launched in February of 2011 and is now one of the fastest-growing, most-active communities in the world. SaltStack was founded in August 2012 to support the Salt project and to deliver SaltStack Enterprise packaged for the world's most-dynamic large and small businesses, web-scale applications and clouds. SaltStack won the Best of VMworld Gold Award for virtualization management, won an InfoWorld 2014 Technology of the Year Award, won the 2013 GigaOm Structure LaunchPad competition, was named a Linux Journal Reader's Choice product in five categories, was named a Gartner 2013 Cool Vendor in DevOps, and was included on the GitHub Octoverse list for 2012 and 2013 as one of the largest, most-active open source projects in the world. For more information, please visit SaltStack.com.

Rhett Glauser, SaltStack, (760) 487-8230, [email protected]