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Mastering SaltStack

By : Joseph Hall
Book Image

Mastering SaltStack

By: Joseph Hall

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering SaltStack
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the Salt configuration


One of the basic ideas around the Salt configuration is that a configuration management system should require as little configuration as possible. A concerted effort has been made by the developers to assign defaults that will apply to as many deployments as possible, while still allowing users to fine-tune the settings to their own needs.

If you are just starting with Salt, you may not need to change anything. In fact, most of the time the Master configuration will be exactly what is needed for a small installation, while Minions will require almost no changes, if any.

Following the configuration tree

By default, most operating systems (primarily Linux-based) will store the Salt configuration in the /etc/salt/ directory. Unix distributions will often use the /usr/local/etc/salt/ directory instead, while Windows uses the C:\salt\ directory. These locations were chosen in order to follow the design most commonly used by the operating system in question, while...