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Learning SaltStack

Learning SaltStack

By : Myers
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Learning SaltStack

Learning SaltStack

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Overview of this book

If you are a system administrator who manages multiple servers, then you know how difficult it is to keep your infrastructure in line. If you've been searching for an easier way, this book is for you. No prior experience with SaltStack is required.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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What this book covers
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1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands
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1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands
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Introducing Salt
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Installing Salt
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Configuring Salt
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A game of ping pong
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Masterless Salt
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Summary
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2. Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution
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2. Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution
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The structure of a remote execution command
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3. Execution Modules – Write Your Own Solution
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3. Execution Modules – Write Your Own Solution
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Exploring the source
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An advanced example
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4. Defining the State of Your Infrastructure
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4. Defining the State of Your Infrastructure
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Our first state
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The pieces of a state declaration
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Expanding to encompass multiple pieces of state
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Dependencies using requisites
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5. Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar
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5. Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar
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Adding a new minion
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Jinja2
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Defining secure minion-specific data in pillar
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6. The Highstate and Environments
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6. The Highstate and Environments
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The highstate
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Storing our states in Git with GitFS
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7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions
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7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions
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Setting up Salt Cloud
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Managing groups of VMs with map files
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8. The Reactor and the Event System
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8. The Reactor and the Event System
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The Salt event system
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Reacting to events
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Index
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Index

Chapter 1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands

Salt is more than just configuration management or remote execution: it is a powerful platform that not only gives you unique tools to manage your infrastructure, but also the power to create new tools to fit your infrastructure's unique needs. However, everything starts with the foundation of lightning-fast remote execution, so that's where we will start.

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Install Salt
  • Configure the master and the minion
  • Connect the minion to the master
  • Run our first remote execution commands

This book assumes that you already have root access on a device with a common distribution of Linux installed. The machine used in the examples in this book is running Ubuntu 14.04 unless otherwise stated. Most examples should run on other major distributions, such as recent versions of Fedora, RHEL 5/6 or Arch Linux.

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