Book description
Get a complete introduction to Salt, the widely used Python-based configuration management and remote execution tool. This practical guide not only shows system administrators how to manage complex infrastructures with Salt, but also teaches developers how to use Salt to deploy and manage their applications.
Written by two Salt experts, this book provides the information you need to deploy Salt in a production infrastructure right away. You’ll also learn how to customize Salt and use salt-cloud to manage your virtualization. If you have experience with Linux and data formats such as JSON or XML, you’re ready to get started.
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Quick Start: First Taste of Salt
- 3. Execution Modules: The Functional Foundation
- 4. Configuration Management: Salt States
- 5. Minion Data/Master Data
- 6. Extending Salt: Part I
- 7. More on the Master
- 8. Extending Salt: Part II
- 9. Topology and Configuration Options
- 10. Brief Introduction to salt-cloud
- A. Using Vagrant to Run Salt Examples
- B. YAML
- Index
Product information
- Title: Salt Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491900635
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