Chapter 8. Using Salt with REST
We've discussed using Salt not only to manage an infrastructure from within, but also to grow the infrastructure with Salt Cloud. But what happens when you need to manage your infrastructure from the outside? Or if you want your infrastructure to take advantage of external systems? In this chapter, we'll explore how Salt makes use of REST interfaces, both as a client and as a server. We'll be covering the following topics:
Taking advantage of Salt's HTTP library
Setting up the Salt API
Communicating as a client or a server
Parsing data
Reacting with Thorium