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Course Outline
Overview of Salt
- SaltStack objectives
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the virtual file system
Introduction to YAML
- Literals and scalars
- Sequences and mappings
- Practical examples
Installing Salt
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Distinctions between salt-common, salt-minion, and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
Salt Command Line Fundamentals
- Structure of a Salt command
- Output formatting in JSON
- Utilizing the jq tool
Targeting Minions
- Globbing techniques
- Regular expressions
- List matching
- IP address matching
- Grains-based matching
- Compound matching
- Examples and exercises
States
- Package management
- Service management
- Highstate execution
- Salt formulas
- Exercises and examples
Templating
- Introduction to Jinja2
- For loops, assignments, and escaping
- Applying Jinja2 templating in Salt with examples
Pillar
- Secure data storage
- Example: Deploying VNC passwords
Extending Salt
- Writing execution modules
- Extening Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Data rendering
- Managing return data
- Scripting with runners
- Integrating external file servers
- Cloud connectivity
- Monitoring with beacons
- Master extension (multi-master setup)
Other Key SaltStack Concepts
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Docker integration
- Salt for Windows
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of Unix/Linux administration is required to fully grasp the more advanced topics covered in this course.
21 Hours
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The teaching pace and using of salt stack command to perform different task.
