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Learning Salt [Video]

By : Seth House
Book Image

Learning Salt [Video]

By: Seth House

Overview of this book

SaltStack automates the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. It provides an arsenal of tools to execute commands across thousands of systems with ease. Learning Saltstack will start from scratch and build towards a high-level goal of installing, configuring, deploying, and managing a web application to Docker containers across multiple systems behind a HAProxy load balancer. The course will start by explaining how Salt approaches System management and help the viewer get up and running with a working Salt infrastructure. You will learn how to use Salt to target, query, and change systems. You will learn to define the desired state of your infrastrucrture and how you can use Salt to enforce the state with a single command. The course will dive deeper into YAML and Jinja and show you the best practices for writing reusable and maintainable states. Finally, you will learn about some of the additional tools that salt provides, including salt-cloud, the reactor, and the event system. By the end of the course, you would be able to build and manage your infrastructure and fully utilize its potential.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 7
The Salt REST API
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Section 2
Exploring rest_cherrypy
The aim of this video is to explore rest_cherrypy endpoints and features. - Authenticate with or without session cookies - Access Salt's Python API via "client" interfaces - Run the sync or async commands