DevOps in Python: Infrastructure as Python

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Moshe ZadkaDevOps in Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4433-3_10

10. Salt Stack

Moshe Zadka¹ 

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Belmont, CA, USA

 

Salt belongs to a class of systems called “configuration management systems,” intended to make administrating a large number of machines easier. It does so by applying the same rules to different machines, making sure that any differences in their configuration are intentional.

It is both written in Python and, more importantly, extensible in Python. For example, wherever a YAML file is used, salt will allow a Python file that defines a dictionary.

10.1 Salt Basics

The salt (or sometimes “SaltStack”) system is a system configuration management framework . It is designed to bring operating systems into a specific ...