@StrongBad said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

It's all about the text files
@StrongBad @scottalanmiller
So maybe I am not looking for something I need to play with Text files or Command lines only

Do we have any GUI (web or desktop app) option is this category ?

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Salt has no interface. Running a Salt state file is as simple as...

salt '*' state.apply

I see.

Hello all,

In process of setting up Offsite Backup, I am thinking of doing to full backups twice in a month (lets say) to External hard drives and moving them to bank locker. How's the idea ?

Following are the reasons I am thinking of above process :

1. I want to make sure that offsite copy is not touchable in any case. If I chose to set it up on remote location and use VPN to connect over Internet and do offsite backups on schedule, still it may vulnerable to Ransomware kind of virus if something missed security thing or new vector of attack, right ? so don't want to take chance.

2. Chosen external hard drive, because it's cheap and don't need much equipment, maintenance like Tape one, on the top of that offsite backup is not for longer duration, so it will be okay with external drives, right ? may use 3 external drives to rotate, so at least two versions of backup will in hand (may be older but at least )

3. Now I want to discuss how to backup ? one thing is I need to full backup, which could be around 5TB.

• Now need to chose the method, and I don't want to copy and paste the data, because, there will be some errors like long path name which could miss the files, so may be third party software or in-built Windows Backup software will be fine ?
• Secondly, password or encryption for the backup, because it's going to out of office premises.

4. Why this location : We don't have any offsite location or branch near reachable and may not able to choose Authorized person's home. So bank locker comes to my mind.

Really appreciate your suggestions !!

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Deploying a Salt Master.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11812/installing-salt-master

Done with steps (CentOS 7) from above article and rebooted, next what ?

I am expecting to open the browser, entering ip with some specific port to login Salt Master and play with it

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@openit said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

any demo VM will great

Salt is SO easy, a demo VM would actually make it harder.

Oh okay, I will give a try with above article if that's the case.

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@openit said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Also, I have seen somewhere in ML that in comparison to AD with SS, someone mentioned SS is good even Lanless. Not sure what is Lanless ?

LANless, meaning "without a LAN." Or "not depending on a LAN." Could be written "sans LAN."

Youtube Video

Wow, that's you @scottalanmiller , will take some dedicated time later to watch it.

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@openit said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Salt is all agent based, you can get around it, but the design of the system is for agents.

Great. I like agent based one than agentless.

Me too, agentless is so prone to error and relies on LAN-centric thinking in most cases.

Could you elaborate LAN-centric ?

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@openit said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Salt is all agent based, you can get around it, but the design of the system is for agents.

Great. I like agent based one than agentless.

Me too, agentless is so prone to error and relies on LAN-centric thinking in most cases.

Yeah, I feel agent based are more reliable.

Also, I have seen somewhere in ML that in comparison to AD with SS, someone mentioned SS is good even Lanless. Not sure what is Lanless ?

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Here is the simple agent install guide for Windows.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11891/deploying-saltstack-on-windows

I understand this is to setup the Client (ask Salt Stack Minion).

How about setting up Salt Stack server or master ?

I believe it's only available for Linux ?

How to setup the Salt Stack Master easily ? any demo VM will great

@scottalanmiller said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Salt is all agent based, you can get around it, but the design of the system is for agents.

Great. I like agent based one than agentless.

@aaronstuder said in Easier guide to setup Salt Stack/Ansible for Windows environment ?:

Here is the official docs for Salt:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/windows.html

Thanks.
So, Salt Master = Salt Stack Server
Salt Minion = Salt Stack Client

Right ?

Hello all,

I have seen so many recommendations about Salt Stack and Ansible from different posts.

I only realized there is such software exists for free after joining ML.

I really wish to give a try in Windows Workgroup environment. Is there any easy setup guide (not boring official docs :)), articles or VM to download and spin to check how it works ?

I think I have tried on CentOS long ago but was not successful. Also, are their agents to be installed on client computers ?

Thanks !

Is there anyone else providing with this range of Pricing ?

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

@openit said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

And I hurry up to check in there website and tried to setup Trial one, I was not able to select $2.5 Server ,what's wrong ? Are they ended with offer ?

You do realize that this entire thread was an announcement of this fact, right? They are temporarily sold out due to high demand. That's what that means.

Ahh, so I realized about this Pricing ($2.5) at the end

Hopefully, they will resume that pricing again soon.....

I have used Digital Ocean earlier. Never know Vultr, but in ML. How they are ?

If it's $2.50, I can be a permanent customer of them.

And I hurry up to check in there website and tried to setup Trial one, I was not able to select $2.5 Server ,what's wrong ? Are they ended with offer ?

Hello all,

I am looking to have deep understanding about risks from Ransomware malware and see how Virtualization helps us to protect from.

I have read somewhere on Internet that "Ransomware removes itself once it detects the machine is VM not physical", not sure if I remember correctly ?

Lets say all my production servers (file server, erp, etc.) on VMs on top of Hyper-V / XenServer/ VMWare Virtualization Server.

Scenarios :

1. If user's computer infected, virus will encrypt all his computer data and also shared folder (on which he have write access) from File Server (which is on VM). Scheduled VMs Snapshot enabled. So if I revert back to snapshot earlier to infection on File Server, I can get back whole data (by losing some data, depends on snapshot), right ?

Note: I can understand with this above step reverting back with snapshot can undo settings and loss of some data which was not infected and not required to recover.

2. So we were talking about on top of VM. How about Virtualization server itself ? Few of vectors for risk are Administrator computer ? as he will access the Virtualization Server and VMs through Hyper-V Manger, XenCenter, vSphere etc. ? But I didn't seen any credentials saved on Windows for XenCenter, so what are the actual risk here ?

3. I heard so many big companies effected with ransomware virus, so if Virtualization is great, why it didn't helped them ? Aren't they virtual (servers) ? maybe they meant for user computers only ?

4. What effect can be with sudden power failure for Virtualization Server, how its going to effect VMs and Host itself ? (out of topic, but bcoz Virtual, including here ) Is that same effect as if a physical server ?

Thanks. I will add more questions, as they are available

Hello all,

We are with O365 Essentials, so we are eligible for using MS Teams for Free ! so we have been waiting for using it in Production since it was released in Preview mode.

Based on the recent post from SW, which redirected to following link, the MS Teams is ready for Production.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-teams-goes-live-with-new-email-integration-enterprise-bots/

Who else is going to use it ?

I have few questions if you know to answer :

1. I seen, any user can create Teams, add members, add channels without being Admin, it leaves me without good control or Can we control after it made ready for Production ?

2. I have evaluated Yammer before MS Teams release preview, and Yammer seems to have good central management with "Network Admin" with reports and stats, whereas in MS Teams, I cannot see such...

3. No idea about data retention of MS Teams (groups, messages, pics etc.), where does it goes ?

4. Now we have email groups for some users, to which external users also send emails. And there's no external users access in MS Teams, so if we create MS Teams group, it will be duplicated and confusing group for them, right ?

I will be posting more queries on same topic, as I receive responses on it

Hello,

I was using download manager from Freedownloadmanager.org on Windows. It was very good software which can handle torrent things also. And they don't have for Linux.

I am looking for good software on CentOS 7.

Can you recommend one ?

Also about Tor, Anyone using Tor browser ? I am trying to set it up on CentOS 7, but was not able to find good article.

Thanks !!

CentOS 7.

Oops, this many posts till I came back