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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By : Alex Braunton
Book Image

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By: Alex Braunton

Overview of this book

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant teaches you how to use Vagrant as a powerful DevOps tool and gives an overview of how it fits into the DevOps landscape. You will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant in Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will then move on to understanding Vagrant commands, discovering its boxes and Vagrant Cloud. After getting to grips with the basics, the next set of chapters helps you to understand how to configure Vagrant, along with networking. You will explore multimachine, followed by studying how to create multiple environments and the communication between them. In addition to this, you will cover concepts such as Vagrant plugins and file syncing. The last set of chapters provides insights into provisioning shell scripts, also guiding you in how to use Vagrant with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Docker, Puppet, and Salt. By the end of this book, you will have grasped Vagrant’s features and how to use them for your benefit with the help of tips and tricks.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding Salt


Salt is another member of the provisioning and infrastructure as code family. It can be compared directly to Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. It's written in the Python language and was first released in March 2011.

Salt can sometimes be referred to as the SaltStack platform. This is due to the modular approach in which the software has been designed and built. It's extensible, flexible approach allows you to add and remove modules.

Salt has one main setup—the client and server. You can think of it as a Puppet Master and Minion setup. Salt uses a server (Master) and client (Minion) for its configuration management. The other setup option that Salt supports is called Masterless,

 

Salt Master

A Salt Master is used to manage the infrastructure and the servers within it. It can run remote execution commands onto Minion servers and manage their state. It also can operate in a Master-tiered setup where commands can be passed down through lower Master servers. The Salt Master manages Salt...