Chapter 3. Exploring Salt SSH

Salt introduced the powerful concept of using message queues as a communication transport mechanism. There are times when the old tools just make sense. However, there's no reason not to give them a kick in the seat of their pants when necessary. This is why Salt SSH was created. In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Using rosters
• Building dynamic rosters
• Understanding the salt-thin agent
• Using the raw SSH mode