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Salt Cookbook
Salt Cookbook

Salt Cookbook: Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

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If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.

Who is this book for?

If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.

What you will learn

  • Understand the basic Salt architecture and components and learn how to configure them
  • Understand and configure advanced Salt components and manipulate configurations
  • Configure Salt modules, the orchestration procedure and set up multimaster configurations
  • Configure operating system components such as files, users, volumes, authentication, and so on
  • Leverage the cloud capabilities of Salt
  • Understand and configure the Salt event and reactor system

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Publication date : Jul 27, 2015
Length: 350 pages
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Language : English
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. Salt Architecture and Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. General Administration Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Advanced Administration Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Managing Application Servers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Managing Databases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Configuring Salt Cloud Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Managing Amazon Web Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Salt Event and Reactor System Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Troubleshooting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Luis Rojas Sep 14, 2015
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When i was trying to ramp on salt, this book proved to be a very good resource.Having common tasks already solved helped me a lot to wrap my head around how salt operates.Not all the recipes apply to your needs, some seem a bit simple but you can learn something from all of them.Cookbooks are not traditional books that will take you by the hand or explain concepts, but once you have read up on the theory a cookbook, like this one, is very nice to help you ground the concepts.If you are ramping up SALT Stack at your company or if you want to see practical examples on how to accomplish a variety of tasks, this book is for you.Regards,Luis R. Rojas
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Pinda Ndaki Sep 14, 2015
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I have a couple of books about salt from packt and this one was a bit disappointing. This one was the second salt book I bought. I got the learning salt title first and I was hoping the cookbook would build on the learning salt book and get beyond basic stuff like installing packages, managing files and services and into bigger things like demonstrating how to use salt for orchestrating deployments across multiple nodes, or managing multi-tier applications but the book never really got beyond introductory material focused on a single node. One of the key features of Salt is that it brings robust remote execution capabilities to the table. That's a killer feature of Salt and it's not really explored in any depth. That's a missed opportunity. The "advanced administration tasks" chapter focused on recipes for installing packages and managing files and services. The book explores installing ruby and python modules and fiddling with repos but that's not particularly advanced stuff or a unique benefit of using Salt. The chapters included don't really hang together well or make a cohesive whole. It's a hodge podge of topics. What I was hoping for was a greater focus on the things that make Salt different and unique and how to use those things that are interesting and unique about Salt to get work done. The treatment of Grains and Pillar --- Key elements of salt -- are explored with shallow and contrived examples and I don't really get a good explanation of why I should care about either of those features even though they are extraordinarily powerful and easy to use. At best, I get an introductory and perfunctory survey of both. I guess what I'm missing are recipes that can help me get from being a Salt Newbie to a skilled Salt operator with an understanding of the preferred conventions of the Salt Community and useful examples of meaningful solutions to day-to-day problems that illustrate why I should want to get my work done using Salt rather than using Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc. The Packt Cookbooks are usually good for getting a few tips and things you can implement in your environment that are beyond the basics and solve actual problems. This book doesn't really give me that.What this book does give you is good introductory material for beginners that want to learn salt by implementing a collection of basic operational tasks (like how to install packages, manage files and services). If you've been working with Puppet or Chef for example, this book can give you a way for translating concepts but beyond that, you'll need to look elsewhere.
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