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Course Outline
Salt Overview
- The goals of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the templating mechanism
Introduction to YAML
- Literals and scalars
- Sequences and mappings
- Practical examples
Installation of 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
- Service management
- Highstate
- Salt formulas
- Exercises and examples
Templating
- Introduction to Jinja2
- For loops, assignments, and escaping
- Applying Jinja2 templating in Salt with examples
Pillar
- Secure data storage
- Example: VNC password deployment
Extending Salt
- Writing execution modules
- Customizing Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data
- Processing return data
- Scripting with runners
- Adding external file servers
- Integrating with cloud services
- Monitoring using beacons
- Scaling the master (multi-masters)
Other interesting SaltStack concepts
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Integration with Docker
- Salt for Windows
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- A fundamental understanding of Unix/Linux administration is required to grasp the more advanced topics covered in this course.
21 Hours
Testimonials (1)
The teaching pace and using of salt stack command to perform different task.
