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Course Outline
Salt Overview
- The objectives of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the virtual file system
Introduction to YAML
- Literals and scalars
- Sequences and mappings
- Practical examples
Installing Salt
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Differences between salt-common, salt-minion, and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
Salt Command Line Basics
- Anatomy of a Salt command
- JSON output formatting
- Using the jq tool
Targeting Minions
- Globbing
- Regular expressions
- List matching
- IP matching
- Grains matching
- Compound matching
- Examples and exercises
States
- Package management
- Services
- Highstate
- Salt formulas
- Exercises and examples
Templating
- Jinja2 introduction
- For loops, assignments, and escaping
- Implementing Jinja2 templating in Salt with examples
Pillar
- Secure data storage
- Example: Deploying VNC passwords
Extending Salt
- Writing execution modules
- Extending Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data
- Handling return data
- Scripting with runners
- Adding external file servers
- Connecting to cloud infrastructure
- Monitoring with beacons
- Extending the master (multi-masters)
Other Notable SaltStack Concepts
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Docker integration
- Salt for Windows
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of Unix/Linux administration is required to grasp the advanced topics covered in this course.
21 Hours
Testimonials (1)
The teaching pace and using of salt stack command to perform different task.
