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Course Outline
Salt Overview
- The primary objectives of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Understanding Salt states
- Using Grains
- Leveraging Pillar
- Jinja2 templates and the virtual file system
Introduction to YAML
- Literals and scalars
- Sequences and mappings
- Practical examples
Installation of Salt
- Installation procedures on Ubuntu
- Distinctions between salt-common, salt-minion, and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
Salt Command Line Basics
- Understanding the anatomy of a Salt command
- Formatting output in JSON
- Utilizing the jq tool
Targeting Minions
- Globbing patterns
- Regular expressions
- List matching techniques
- IP-based matching
- Grains-based matching
- Compound matching strategies
- Examples and exercises
States
- Package management
- Service management
- Executing Highstate
- Utilizing Salt formulas
- Exercises and examples
Templating
- Introduction to Jinja2
- For loops, variable assignments, and escaping characters
- Implementing Jinja2 templating in Salt with examples
Pillar
- Secure data storage
- Example: Deploying VNC passwords
Extending Salt
- Creating custom execution modules
- Extending Salt configuration capabilities
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data structures
- Managing return data
- Automation scripting with runners
- Integrating external file servers
- Connecting to cloud platforms
- Monitoring systems using beacons
- Scaling the master setup (multi-masters)
Other interesting SaltStack concepts
- Managing environments
- Orchestration workflows
- Integration with Docker
- Using Salt for Windows
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of Unix/Linux administration is required to fully grasp the advanced topics covered in this course.
21 Hours
Testimonials (1)
The teaching pace and using of salt stack command to perform different task.
