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Mastering SaltStack

By : Joseph Hall
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Mastering SaltStack

By: Joseph Hall

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Mastering SaltStack
Joseph Hall
Aug, 2015 | 306 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering SaltStack
Mastering SaltStack
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Reviewing a Few Essentials
Reviewing a Few Essentials
Executing commands remotely
SLS file trees
Using States for configuration management
The basics of Grains, Pillars, and templates
Summary
2
Diving into Salt Internals
Diving into Salt Internals
Understanding the Salt configuration
The Renderer
Understanding the Loader
Plunging into the State compiler
Summary
3
Exploring Salt SSH
Exploring Salt SSH
Grappling with SSH
Using rosters
Understanding the salt-thin agent
Using the raw SSH mode
Summary
4
Managing Tasks Asynchronously
Managing Tasks Asynchronously
Looking at the event system
Building Reactors
Using the queue system
Summary
5
Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level
Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level
Examining the Salt Cloud configuration
Building custom deploy scripts
Taking a look at cloud maps
Working with autoscale Reactors
Summary
6
Using Salt with REST
Using Salt with REST
Looking at Salt's HTTP library
Understanding Salt API
Working with webhooks
Summary
7
Understanding the RAET Protocol
Understanding the RAET Protocol
Comparing RAET and ZeroMQ
Flow-based programming
Driving with RAET
Summary
8
Strategies for Scaling
Strategies for Scaling
All about syndication
High availability with multiple Masters
Incorporating external data sources
Using the Master API
Testing load in the infrastructure
Summary
9
Monitoring with Salt
Monitoring with Salt
Monitoring basics
Monitoring with Returners
Using monitoring states
Working with beacons
Setting up alerts
Summary
10
Exploring Best Practices
Exploring Best Practices
Future-proofing your infrastructure
Setting up your directories
The SLS efficiency
Naming conventions
Templates and variables
Summary
11
Troubleshooting Problems
Troubleshooting Problems
What the…?
Using salt-call locally
Working with YAML
Asking the community for help
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Joseph Hall has touched just about every area of the modern technology world from his beginnings as a support technician to being a web programmer, QA engineer, systems administrator, Linux instructor, and cloud engineer. He is currently a senior cloud and integrations engineer at SaltStack. Joseph enjoys working with some of the best minds in the business with his coworkers and SaltStack's partners. He is also a classically trained chef. Joseph's supreme pleasure lies in working with what he calls computational gastronomy.

I would like to thank my wife, Nat, for her support when I stayed up every night to write this book. I would also like to thank Tom Hatch for writing Salt and having the guts to turn it into the best company that I've ever worked for. My sincere thanks go out to Colton Meyers for hooking me up with Packt Publishing. I would also like to thank the Salt community for being awesome and helping make Salt what it is today.

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