Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Mastering SaltStack

You're reading from   Mastering SaltStack Use Salt to the fullest

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467393
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Joseph Hall Joseph Hall
Author Profile Icon Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essentials Revisited FREE CHAPTER 2. Diving into Salt Internals 3. Managing States 4. Exploring Salt SSH 5. Managing Tasks Asynchronously 6. Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems 7. Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level 8. Using Salt with REST 9. Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports 10. Strategies for Scaling 11. Monitoring with Salt 12. Exploring Best Practices 13. Troubleshooting Problems

What the...?

Things go wrong. And you don't always notice when they do, at least not at first. And when you do, your first response is likely to sound like, "Hey, that's weird!"

Before you can really start troubleshooting a problem, it always helps to build some context around it, so that you know where to look for the solution. It has been said that real programmers cook popcorn on the heat of their CPU. They can tell which jobs are running based on the rate of the popping. You don't need to get so involved as that to work around problems in Salt, but a little knowledge will go a long way.

Addressing the problem source

A common mistake in any troubleshooting situation is to address the symptoms when they occur, with little regard to what's actually causing the problem. For example, if a roof is leaking during a rainstorm, the only step that some people will take is to leave out containers under the leak to catch the water, and empty them when they get full...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime