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Salt Cookbook

You're reading from   Salt Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399740
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anirban Saha Anirban Saha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Performing SSH authentication tasks


Managing SSH keys and the associated files is a key task that needs to be performed in most infrastructure at present to facilitate a number of functions with remote access between servers. Although this task can be achieved by propagating files to the minions using the file module, Salt has a better way to do it using SSH-specific modules. In this recipe, you will learn how to use these modules.

How to do it...

  1. Configure two minions called salt-minion and backup-server. Configure the server_type grain of salt-minion to have the value app and the backup server's value to be backup.

  2. Create a new state called sshauth, and create two files inside this directory called pubkey.sls and known_hosts.sls. Also create a directory called sshkeys inside the sshauth directory.

    We will assume that the groups and users modules, configured in the last recipe, have been applied on both the minions.

  3. On the salt-minion minion, change to the stg-app user, and run the following...

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