New Guide: Using Salt to Deploy and Manage VMware Tools
New Guide: Using Salt to Deploy and Manage VMware Tools¶
A new guide is now available covering how to use Salt to install and maintain VMware Tools across Windows virtual machines.
This is a practical starting point for teams that have Salt deployed in a VMware environment and want a concrete first automation use case.
The guide covers:
- Creating a minimal winrepo_ng package definition for VMware Tools
- Installing and verifying the package using the RaaS interface and Salt CLI
- Building an idempotent state file with
pkg.installed - Handling post-install reboots safely using
system.rebootwithonchangesandonly_on_pending_reboot - Integrating the state into highstate via
top.sls
The approach keeps things simple and does not require a Git-backed fileserver, making it accessible for first-time Salt users.