# Salt Cloud basic usage

Salt Cloud needs, at least, one configured Provider and Profile to be functional.

## Creating a VM

To create a VM with salt cloud, use command:

    salt-cloud -p <profile> name_of_vm

Assuming there is a profile configured as following:

    fedora_rackspace:
        provider: my-rackspace-config
        image: Fedora 17
        size: 256 server
        script: bootstrap-salt

Then, the command to create new VM named `fedora_http_01` is:

    salt-cloud -p fedora_rackspace fedora_http_01

## Destroying a VM

To destroy a created-by-salt-cloud VM, use command:

    salt-cloud -d name_of_vm

For example, to delete the VM created on above example, use:

    salt-cloud -d fedora_http_01