Preface

Salt is one of the many but unique tools available today for configuration management and orchestration. Salt not only enables us to seamlessly configure our infrastructure, but also to perform all sorts of tasks based on a variety of conditions and properties of the Salt minions. Along with super-fast module execution with the help of the ZeroMQ messaging library, Salt takes orchestration to a whole new level, which can be used for numerous day-to-day tasks starting from simple data collection to complex deployments.

This book provides a hands-on approach to the world of Salt. It provides a basic understanding of the concepts and architecture on which Salt is based, and then moves on to details about configuring it and also writing complex ...

Get Salt Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.