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Course Outline
Salt Overview
- The objective of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the virtual environment
Introduction to YAML
- Literals and scalars
- Sequences and mappings
- Examples
Installing Salt
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Distinctions between salt-common, salt-minion, and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
Basics of the Salt Command Line
- Structure of a Salt command
- JSON output formatting
- Using the jq tool
Targeting Minions
- Globbing patterns
- Regular expressions
- List matching
- IP matching
- Grains matching
- Compound matching
- Examples and exercises
States
- Package management
- Services
- Highstate
- Salt formulas
- Exercises and examples
Templating
- Introduction to Jinja2
- Loops, assignments, and escaping
- Using Jinja2 for templating in Salt, with examples
Pillar
- Secure storage solutions
- Example: Deploying a VNC password
Extending Salt
- Writing execution modules
- Extending Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data
- Managing return data
- Scripting with runners
- Adding external file servers
- Connecting to the cloud
- Monitoring with beacons
- Extending the master (multi-masters)
Other Notable SaltStack Concepts
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Integration with Docker
- Salt for Windows
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of Unix/Linux administration is required to fully 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.
