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13. Scaling Configuration Management Using Salt Syndic

Andrew Mallett1  
(1)
Peterborough, UK
 

Your Salt Minions may be in a single office location with well-connected high-speed networks; others will find that they are employing WANs interconnecting branch offices with the main location. It is possible to decentralize configuration with Salt adding Salt Masters to each remote location. Is this a good idea? Probably not, unless you can link those Salt Masters back to the central Salt Master! Installing Salt Syndic will allow this, making the centralized Salt Master as a Master of Masters or MoM ...

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