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Learning SaltStack

You're reading from   Learning SaltStack Build, manage, and secure your infrastructure with the power of SaltStack

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Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785881909
Length 202 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Colton Myers is a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since graduating with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah, he has worked professionally, writing software in Python. He loves working on open source software and has made multiple appearances as a speaker at the US PyCon conference. Colton is a SaltStack Certified Trainer and has worked on the Salt open source software for years. He was previously a core engineer at SaltStack. At the time this book was published, he was a Python developer and systems engineer at Adobe. Find him on Twitter and Github at @basepi.
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Preface 1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands FREE CHAPTER 2. Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution 3. Execution Modules – Write Your Own Solution 4. Defining the State of Your Infrastructure 5. Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar 6. The Highstate and Environments 7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions 8. The Reactor and the Event System 9. Security Best Practices in Salt 10. How Can I Get Involved? Index

Chapter 7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions

In the previous chapter, we finished up our exploration of the state system in Salt by learning about environments and the highstate.

In this chapter, we're going to explore another topic included in Salt, named Salt Cloud. You will learn about the following topics:

  • How to configure Salt Cloud to talk to one or more cloud providers
  • How to use Salt Cloud to create and bootstrap new virtual machines
  • How to manage fleets of virtual machines using map files

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