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NAME

       salt-cloud - Salt Cloud Command

       Provision virtual machines in the cloud with Salt

SYNOPSIS

          salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map

          salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map NAME

          salt-cloud -m /etc/salt/cloud.map NAME1 NAME2

          salt-cloud -p PROFILE NAME

          salt-cloud -p PROFILE NAME1 NAME2 NAME3 NAME4 NAME5 NAME6

DESCRIPTION

       Salt Cloud is the system used to provision virtual machines on various public clouds via a
       cleanly controlled profile and mapping system.

OPTIONS

       --version
              Print the version of Salt that is running.

       --versions-report
              Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

       -h, --help
              Show the help message and exit

       -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
              The location of the Salt  configuration  directory.  This  directory  contains  the
              configuration  files  for  Salt  master  and  minions. The default location on most
              systems is /etc/salt.

   Execution Options
       -L LOCATION, --location=LOCATION
              Specify which region to connect to.

       -a ACTION, --action=ACTION
              Perform an action that may be  specific  to  this  cloud  provider.  This  argument
              requires one or more instance names to be specified.

       -f <FUNC-NAME> <PROVIDER>, --function=<FUNC-NAME> <PROVIDER>
              Perform  an  function  that  may  be specific to this cloud provider, that does not
              apply to an instance. This argument requires a  provider  to  be  specified  (i.e.:
              nova).

       -p PROFILE, --profile=PROFILE
              Select  a  single  profile  to  build the named cloud VMs from. The profile must be
              defined in the specified profiles file.

       -m MAP, --map=MAP
              Specify a map file to use. If used without any  other  options,  this  option  will
              ensure  that all of the mapped VMs are created. If the named VM already exists then
              it will be skipped.

       -H, --hard
              When specifying a map file, the default behavior is to ensure that all of  the  VMs
              specified  in  the  map file are created. If the --hard option is set, then any VMs
              that exist on configured cloud providers that are not specified  in  the  map  file
              will  be  destroyed. Be advised that this can be a destructive operation and should
              be used with care.

       -d, --destroy
              Pass in the name(s) of VMs to destroy, salt-cloud will search the configured  cloud
              providers  for  the  specified names and destroy the VMs. Be advised that this is a
              destructive operation and should be used with care. Can be used in conjunction with
              the -m option to specify a map of VMs to be deleted.

       -P, --parallel
              Normally  when  building  many  cloud VMs they are executed serially. The -P option
              will run each cloud vm build in a separate process allowing for large groups of VMs
              to be build at once.

              Be advised that some cloud provider's systems don't seem to be well suited for this
              influx of vm creation. When creating large groups of VMs watch the  cloud  provider
              carefully.

       -u, --update-bootstrap
              Update salt-bootstrap to the latest stable bootstrap release.

       -y, --assume-yes
              Default yes in answer to all confirmation questions.

       -k, --keep-tmp
              Do not remove files from /tmp/ after deploy.sh finishes.

       --show-deploy-args
              Include the options used to deploy the minion in the data returned.

       --script-args=SCRIPT_ARGS
              Script arguments to be fed to the bootstrap script when deploying the VM.

   Query Options
       -Q, --query
              Execute  a  query and return some information about the nodes running on configured
              cloud providers

       -F, --full-query
              Execute a query and print out all available information about all cloud  VMs.   Can
              be used in conjunction with -m to display only information about the specified map.

       -S, --select-query
              Execute  a  query  and  print out selected information about all cloud VMs.  Can be
              used in conjunction with -m to display only information about the specified map.

       --list-providers
              Display a list of configured providers.

       --list-profiles
              New in version 2014.7.0.

              Display a list of configured profiles.  Pass  in  a  cloud  provider  to  view  the
              provider's  associated  profiles, such as digital_ocean, or pass in all to list all
              the configured profiles.

   Cloud Providers Listings
       --list-locations=LIST_LOCATIONS
              Display a list of locations available in configured cloud providers. Pass the cloud
              provider  that  available  locations are desired on, aka "linode", or pass "all" to
              list locations for all configured cloud providers

       --list-images=LIST_IMAGES
              Display a list of images available in configured cloud providers.  Pass  the  cloud
              provider  that available images are desired on, aka "linode", or pass "all" to list
              images for all configured cloud providers

       --list-sizes=LIST_SIZES
              Display a list of sizes available in configured cloud  providers.  Pass  the  cloud
              provider  that  available  sizes  are  desired on, aka "AWS", or pass "all" to list
              sizes for all configured cloud providers

   Cloud Credentials
       --set-password=<USERNAME> <PROVIDER>
              Configure password for a cloud provider and save it to the keyring.   PROVIDER  can
              be  specified with or without a driver, for example: "--set-password bob rackspace"
              or more specific "--set-password bob rackspace:openstack" DEPRECATED!

   Output Options
       --out  Pass in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This outputter  can
              be any of the available outputters:
                 grains, highstate, json, key, overstatestage, pprint, raw, txt, yaml

              Some  outputters  are formatted only for data returned from specific functions; for
              instance, the grains outputter will not work for non-grains data.

              If an outputter is used that does not support the data passed into  it,  then  Salt
              will fall back on the pprint outputter and display the return data using the Python
              pprint standard library module.

              NOTE:
                 If using --out=json, you will probably  want  --static  as  well.   Without  the
                 static  option,  you will get a separate JSON string per minion which makes JSON
                 output invalid as a whole.  This is due to using an iterative outputter.  So  if
                 you want to feed it to a JSON parser, use --static as well.

       --out-indent OUTPUT_INDENT, --output-indent OUTPUT_INDENT
              Print  the output indented by the provided value in spaces. Negative values disable
              indentation. Only applicable in outputters that support indentation.

       --out-file=OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file=OUTPUT_FILE
              Write the output to the specified file.

       --out-file-append, --output-file-append
              Append the output to the specified file.

       --no-color
              Disable all colored output

       --force-color
              Force colored output

              NOTE:
                 When using colored output the color codes are as follows:

                 green denotes success, red denotes failure, blue denotes changes and success and
                 yellow denotes a expected future change in configuration.

       --state-output=STATE_OUTPUT, --state_output=STATE_OUTPUT
              Override  the  configured  state_output  value  for  minion  output. One of 'full',
              'terse', 'mixed', 'changes' or 'filter'. Default: 'none'.

       --state-verbose=STATE_VERBOSE, --state_verbose=STATE_VERBOSE
              Override the configured state_verbose value for  minion  output.  Set  to  True  or
              False. Default: none.

EXAMPLES

       To create 4 VMs named web1, web2, db1, and db2 from specified profiles:

          salt-cloud -p fedora_rackspace web1 web2 db1 db2

       To read in a map file and create all VMs specified therein:

          salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map

       To read in a map file and create all VMs specified therein in parallel:

          salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -P

       To delete any VMs specified in the map file:

          salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -d

       To delete any VMs NOT specified in the map file:

          salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -H

       To display the status of all VMs specified in the map file:

          salt-cloud -m /path/to/cloud.map -Q

SEE ALSO

       salt-cloud(7) salt(7) salt-master(1) salt-minion(1)

AUTHOR

       Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the Authors file