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: "The sudo command needs to be added before the mentioned commands."

A block of code is set as follows:

file_roots:
  base:
    - /opt/salt-cookbook/base
  production:
    - /opt/salt-cookbook/production
  staging:
    - /opt/salt-cookbook/staging
  development:
    - /opt/salt-cookbook/development

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

[root@salt-master ~]# service salt-master restart

New terms and important words are shown in bold, like this: "Salt is a systems management software created and maintained by SaltStack."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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