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Installing Salt on Centos 7

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Install the latest version of the salt from the salt repo directly instead of the epel repo as the salt repo provides you with the latest version of the salt available while epel repo is having slightly lower end packages as of now due to the dependency issues of packages of lower version. Create a following salt repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory vim saltstack.repo

Comparision between the Amazon AWS Transit VPC and Ipsec VPN Environment

-> The AWS Transit VPC is a Transit Overlay connection solution between multiple Spoke VPC's and reduces the overhead of configuring mesh of VPN connections between your datacenter to each different VPC's. Rather, the Spoke VPC's just need to connect to the Transit VPC for inter-spoke(VPC-VPC) connectivity and to extend the spokes to connect to the remote network/datacenters. This solution reduces the pain to implement individual IPsec VPN connections from your datacenters to each different VPCs located in different regions. -> Transit VPC uses the same IPsec VPN environment to connect to different AWS regions as a normal IPsec VPN connection between two different regions. I reviewed the output [mtr and ping] you shared "mtr_result_manual_ipsec.png", "mtr_result_transit_vpc.png" and it looks like you are getting relatively same latency over Transit VPC setup and manual IPsec setup, which is normal as both the setup are using IPsec VPN tunnel betwe...