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Mastering SaltStack - Second Edition

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Mastering SaltStack - Second Edition

Overview of this book

SaltStack is a powerful configuration management and automation suite designed to manage servers and tens of thousands of nodes. This book showcases Salt as a very powerful automation framework. We will review the fundamental concepts to get you in the right frame of mind, and then explore Salt in much greater depth. You will explore Salt SSH as a powerful tool and take Salt Cloud to the next level. Next, you’ll master using Salt services with ease in your infrastructure. You will discover methods and strategies to scale your infrastructure properly. You will also learn how to use Salt as a powerful monitoring tool. By the end of this book, you will have learned troubleshooting tips and best practices to make the entire process of using Salt pain-free and easy.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering SaltStack Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using Salt Stack Formulas on GitHub


A number of formulas have been built by various engineers and are compiled together on GitHub under the Salt Stack Formulas organization. You can find these formulas at https://github.com/saltstack-formulas.

At the time of writing this, there are over 200 formulas hosted under this organization. Some are better maintained than others, but a number of them see frequent maintenance by the community.

Probably the most helpful thing about these formulas is that, outside of rare special cases, each software package that is supported by a formula will only have one formula. This is a vast improvement over similar user repositories, which may include dozens or even hundreds of different examples for the exact same package.

Examining the standard layout

Most formulas adhere to a standard layout, which has been developed and honed over time to help encourage a consistent look and feel. You will generally find the following files and directories:Because Cobbler is both...