Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Unix distributions will often use the /usr/local/etc/salt/ directory instead, while Windows uses the C:\salt\ directory ."

A block of code is set as follows:

name: apache
os: RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, FreeBSD
os_family: RedHat, Debian, Suse, FreeBSD
version: 201607
release: 1
minimum_version: 2015.8
top_level_dir: apache
summary: Formula for installing Apache
description: Formula for installing the Apache web server
optional: mod_perl
recommended: mod_ssl

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# mkdir -p /srv/salt/devenv/

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "On the main screen of the repository, you will see a button titled Clone or download."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.