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Mastering SaltStack
Mastering SaltStack

Mastering SaltStack: Use Salt to the fullest , Second Edition

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Key benefits

  • Automate tasks effectively and take charge of your infrastructure
  • Effectively scale Salt to manage thousands of machines and tackle everyday problems
  • Explore Salt’s inner workings and advance your knowledge of it

Description

SaltStack is a powerful configuration management and automation suite designed to manage servers and tens of thousands of nodes. This book showcases Salt as a very powerful automation framework. We will review the fundamental concepts to get you in the right frame of mind, and then explore Salt in much greater depth. You will explore Salt SSH as a powerful tool and take Salt Cloud to the next level. Next, you’ll master using Salt services with ease in your infrastructure. You will discover methods and strategies to scale your infrastructure properly. You will also learn how to use Salt as a powerful monitoring tool. By the end of this book, you will have learned troubleshooting tips and best practices to make the entire process of using Salt pain-free and easy.

Who is this book for?

This book is ideal for IT professionals and ops engineers who already manage groups of servers, but would like to expand their knowledge and gain expertise with SaltStack. This book explains the advanced features and concepts of Salt. A basic knowledge of Salt is required in order to get to grips with advanced Salt features.

What you will learn

  • Automate tasks effectively, so that your infrastructure can run itself
  • Start building more complex concepts
  • Master user-level internals
  • Build scaling strategies
  • Explore monitoring strategies
  • Learn how to troubleshoot Salt and its subcomponents
  • Explore best practices for Salt

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Publication date : Nov 25, 2016
Length: 378 pages
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
1. Essentials Revisited Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Diving into Salt Internals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Managing States Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Exploring Salt SSH Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Managing Tasks Asynchronously Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Using Salt with REST Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Strategies for Scaling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Monitoring with Salt Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Exploring Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
13. Troubleshooting Problems Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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jc Aug 23, 2017
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While there is a lot of documentation on the saltstack web site it is difficult to know how to begin learning about saltstack. This book leads you through the basics. It is a good start for a novice on saltstack. You will probably need some background in python to get the most from this book but it is probably not a necessity
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Ted O'Hayer Feb 09, 2018
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Does a great job of diving into Salt's internals, not just the CM/states component. Helped me treat salt as an orchestration platform and build cool stuff on top of it.
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PW Feb 14, 2019
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That is how you start with Salt
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Thomas S Hatch Jan 17, 2017
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This book does a fantastic job of going over the depth of the Salt project. Salt comes with a lot of powerful systems that are not exposed in the more simple use cases of Salt and this book does a great job of exposing this functionality.
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Amazon Customer Nov 01, 2018
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As expected
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