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SaltStack

( Duration: 4 Days )

SaltStack is the new lightweight and easy to use Python based open source configuration management that helps you automate tasks and make your infrastructure self-sufficient. This SaltStack training course will help you understand the nuts and bolts of SaltStack, right from its configuration to using its templating engines and scaling it across thousands of machines.

By attending SaltStack workshop, delegates will learn:

  • To configure systems so that they can be managed by Salt states and the basic skills needed to manage Salt infrastructure
  • About the different Salt states and their implementations including creating SLS files, state trees, and setting requisites
  • About the templating engines Jinja and Pillar and how they are used to access minion configuration values
  • How to use SaltStack to manage large deployments

  • Linux system administration experience.

COURSE AGENDA

1

Salt overview

  • The goal of SaltStack
  • Architectural overview of remote execution
  • Salt states
  • Grains
  • Pillar
  • Jinja2 and the virtual mechanism
2

Introduction to YAML

  • Literals, scalars
  • Sequences, mappings
  • Examples
3

Installation of Salt

  • Installation on Ubuntu
  • Differences between salt-common, salt-minion and salt-master
  • Installation on Amazon EC2
4

Salt command line basics

  • Anatomy of a salt command
  • Output formatting in JSON
  • The jq tool
5

Targeting minions

  • Regular expressions
  • List matching IP matching
  • Grains matching
  • Compound matching
  • Examples and exercises N
6

States

  • Package management
  • Services
  • Highstate
  • Exercises, examples
7

Templating

  • Jinja2 introduction
  • For loop, assignments, escaping
  • Templating with Jinja2 in Salt, examples
8

Pillar

  • Secure storage
  • VNC password deployment example
9

Other interesting SaltStack concepts

  • Environments
  • salt-cloud
  • Orchestration
  • Integration with Docker

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