Install salt-cloud by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install salt-cloud
Description:
public cloud VM management system
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way. . It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality. . Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in. . Salt Cloud is built-in to Salt to provision systems on cloud hosts or hypervisors and immediately bring them under management.
Homepage: http://saltstack.org/
Version: 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1
Section: universe/admin