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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

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