Learning SaltStack - Second Edition

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1. Learning SaltStack Second Edition
   1. Table of Contents
   2. Learning SaltStack Second Edition
   3. Credits
   4. About the Author
   5. About the Reviewer
   6. www.PacktPub.com
      1. eBooks, discount offers, and more
         1. Why subscribe?
   7. Preface
      1. What this book covers
      2. What you need for this book
      3. Who this book is for
      4. Conventions
      5. Reader feedback
      6. Customer support
         1. Downloading the example code
         2. Errata
         3. Piracy
         4. Questions
   8. 1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands
      1. Introducing Salt
      2. Installing Salt
         1. Installation with system packages (Ubuntu)
         2. Installation with system packages (CentOS 6)
         3. Installation with system packages (Windows)
         4. Installing with Salt Bootstrap
      3. Configuring Salt
         1. Firewall configuration
         2. Salt minion configuration
         3. Starting the Salt master and Salt minion
         4. Accepting the minion key on the master
      4. A game of ping pong
      5. Masterless Salt
      6. Summary
   9. 2. Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution
      1. The structure of a remote execution command
         1. Command-line options
         2. Targeting strings
            1. Glob matching
            2. Perl-compatible regular expression matching
            3. List matching
            4. Grain and pillar matching
               1. Using grains
               2. Using pillars
            5. Compound matching
         3. Remote execution modules and functions
            1. Adding users
            2. Installing packages
            3. Managing services
            4. Monitoring minion states
            5. Running arbitrary commands
      2. Summary
   10. 3. Execution Modules – Write Your Own Solution
       1. Exploring the source
          1. Cross-calling execution modules
          2. Grains and the __virtual__ function
          3. The__opts__ and __pillar__ functions
          4. Reformatting return data
       2. An advanced example
       3. Summary
   11. 4. Defining the State of Your Infrastructure
       1. Our first state
       2. The pieces of a state declaration
       3. Expanding to encompass multiple pieces of state
       4. Dependencies using requisites
          1. The require requisite
          2. The watch requisite
          3. Other requisites
          4. The _in requisites
       5. Summary
   12. 5. Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar
       1. Adding a new minion
       2. Jinja2
          1. apache2 or httpd?
       3. Defining secure minion-specific data in pillar
          1. Using pillar data in states
       4. Summary
   13. 6. The Highstate and Environments
       1. The highstate
          1. Environments
             1. Environments in pillar
          2. Expanding our base environment
       2. Storing our states in Git with GitFS
       3. Summary
   14. 7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions
       1. Setting up Salt Cloud
          1. Setting up Linode
             1. Creating an API key
          2. Creating a cloud provider configuration
          3. Creating cloud VM profiles
          4. Creating and destroying machines
       2. Managing groups of VMs with map files
          1. Creating new masters with the map files
       3. Summary
   15. 8. The Reactor and the Event System
       1. The Salt event system
          1. Listening for events
             1. Event structure
          2. Firing events from Salt
          3. Firing events from custom code
       2. Reacting to events
       3. Summary
   16. 9. Security Best Practices in Salt
       1. Securing Salt configuration
          1. Master configuration
             1. open_mode and auto_accept
             2. file_recv
             3. Peer publishing
          2. Minion configuration
             1. master_finger
       2. Key management
          1. Preseeding the minion keys
          2. Preseeding the master key
          3. Verifying with key fingerprints
             1. Master fingerprint
             2. Minion fingerprints
       3. Firewall and network configuration
       4. Summary
   17. 10. How Can I Get Involved?
       1. Contributing code using GitHub
          1. Creating an account on GitHub
          2. The project
          3. Getting the code
          4. Contributing a fix
          5. Committing our changes
          6. Pushing the changes and creating a pull request
       2. Other ways to get involved
          1. Salt-users mailing list
          2. #salt on freenode IRC
          3. #saltstack on the hangops Slack
       3. Summary
   18. Index