Salt Open: Automating Your Enterprise and Your Network

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A. MallettSalt Openhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7237-4_11

11. Using Salt SSH

Andrew Mallett¹  

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Peterborough, UK

 

Where a long-running Salt Minion service is not required or desired, we can use Salt SSH with Salt to connect using SSH to remote devices that have Python installed. You may also want to use this as a method of installing the Salt Minion remotely. We will use Salt SSH to enlist the additional Ubuntu systems as a full Salt Minion. This is just as easy with over 20 devices as it is with the one device that we will use. Standardizing communication with SSH and no specific node requirements as Python is universally available in Linux distributions, ...