Learning Salt

Learning Salt, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 39 lectures, based on 929 reviews, and has 3953 subscribers.

You will learn about How to Install and configure Salt. How Salt communicates between machines. The difference and distinction between the various Salt module types. How and why to use execution modules. Understand Salt’s state system. Write and manage complex states. Run complex state trees that span multiple systems. Use and react to real-time events across an infrastructure. Integrate Salt with other tools, both internal and external. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course targets IT professionals, system admins, and DevOps teams looking to effectively deploy and manage their infrastructure with Salt. It is particularly useful for This course targets IT professionals, system admins, and DevOps teams looking to effectively deploy and manage their infrastructure with Salt.

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Title: Learning Salt

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 39

Number of Published Lectures: 39

Number of Curriculum Items: 39

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 39

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to Install and configure Salt.

How Salt communicates between machines.

The difference and distinction between the various Salt module types.

How and why to use execution modules.

Understand Salt’s state system.

Write and manage complex states.

Run complex state trees that span multiple systems.

Use and react to real-time events across an infrastructure.

Integrate Salt with other tools, both internal and external.

Who Should Attend

This course targets IT professionals, system admins, and DevOps teams looking to effectively deploy and manage their infrastructure with Salt.

Target Audiences

This course targets IT professionals, system admins, and DevOps teams looking to effectively deploy and manage their infrastructure with Salt.

SaltStack automates the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. It provides an arsenal of tools to execute commands across thousands of systems with ease.

Learning Saltstack will start from scratch and build towards a high-level goal of installing, configuring, deploying, and managing a web application to Docker containers across multiple systems behind a HAProxy load balancer. The course will start by explaining how Salt approaches System management and help the viewer get up and running with a working Salt infrastructure. You will learn how to use Salt to target, query, and change systems.

You will learn to define the desired state of your infrastrucrture and how you can use Salt to enforce the state with a single command. The course will dive deeper into YAML and Jinja and show you the best practices for writing reusable and maintainable states. Finally, you will learn about some of the additional tools that salt provides, including salt-cloud, the reactor, and the event system.

By the end of the course, you would be able to build and manage your infrastructure and fully utilize its potential.

About the Author

Seth House has been involved in the Salt community for five years and has worked at SaltStack for four years. He wrote the salt-api and also contributed to many core parts of Salt. He has collaborated with the Salt community and started the Salt Formulas organization. Seth has given over thirty Introductions, Presentations, Training at user groups and conferences and Created tutorials on Salt well for Companies. He has designed and helped fine-tune Salt deployments at companies all across the United States.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Installation and Setup

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: The Philosophy of Salt

Lecture 3: How Salt Communicates?

Lecture 4: Installing Salt

Lecture 5: Configuring Salt

Lecture 6: Key Acceptance and Encryption

Chapter 2: Execution Modules

Lecture 1: Targeting Minions

Lecture 2: Execution Module Basics

Lecture 3: Common Execution Modules

Lecture 4: Call from Master or Minions

Chapter 3: The State of an Infrastructure

Lecture 1: The Philosophy of Salts State System

Lecture 2: Our First State

Lecture 3: Dissect State Functions

Lecture 4: Execution Flow of a State Run

Lecture 5: Debugging States

Chapter 4: Expanding States with Jinja and Pillar

Lecture 1: Introduction to YAML, Jinja, and Other Renderers

Lecture 2: How to Write Reusable States?

Lecture 3: How to Write Maintainable States?

Lecture 4: YAML and Jinja Best Practices and Gotchas

Lecture 5: Configuring States Using Pillar

Lecture 6: Learning Salt Formulas

Lecture 7: Debugging Jinja

Chapter 5: Complex State Trees

Lecture 1: Glue SLS Files Together

Lecture 2: Defining, Enforcing, and Debugging Execution Orders

Lecture 3: Conditional and Branching Logic During a State Run

Lecture 4: Debugging a State Run

Lecture 5: Sharing Data between Systems with Salt Mine

Lecture 6: Using Salt Orchestrate to Manage Complex State Runs

Chapter 6: Events and the Reactor

Lecture 1: An Overview of Salts Event Bus

Lecture 2: Sending Custom Events

Lecture 3: Listening to Events and Trigger Actions with Salts Reactor

Lecture 4: Integrating Salt with External Tools Using Events

Lecture 5: Sending Events Using Beacon Modules

Lecture 6: How to Debug the Reactor and Best Practices?

Chapter 7: The Salt REST API

Lecture 1: Installing and Configuring Salt-API

Lecture 2: Exploring rest_cherrypy

Lecture 3: More rest_cherrypy Features

Lecture 4: Using Salt-API to Integrate with External Systems

Lecture 5: Wrapping Up and Further Scope

Instructors

Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

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2 stars: 16 votes

3 stars: 113 votes

4 stars: 367 votes

5 stars: 425 votes

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