Introduction to Salt

• The goal of SaltStack
• A Brief History
• Architectural Overview
• Salt states
• Grains
• Pillar

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Installing Salt

• Installation Salt on Linux Distribution
• Salt-minion
• Salt-master

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Basic Commands

• Anatomy of a salt command
• The basic commands: salt, salt-key, salt-run and salt-call
• Key Management
• Remote Execution Details

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YAML Overview

• Literals, scalars
• Sequences, mappings
• Examples

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Execution Modules

• Manage Packages
• Manage Users
• Access different Salt Utilities
• Using Shell to execute commands

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Configuration Management

• Salt states
• State File
• Highstate
• Top File
• State Ordering

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Minion Data

• Obtaining System Information with Grains
• Basic Grain Operations
• Setting Grains
• Targeting with Grains
• Pillars
• Querying Pillar Data
• Using External Pillars to query other sources
• Render
• Exercises and examples

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Templating

• Jinja2 introduction
• Templating with Jinja2 in Salt

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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
• Extending the master
• Monitoring with Salt

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Advanced SaltStack features

• Environments
• Orchestration
• Integration with Docker

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SaltStack Best Practices

• Structuring States and Formulas
• Structuring Pillar Files
• Variable Flexibility
• Storing Secure Data

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