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Mastering SaltStack

You're reading from Mastering SaltStack Use Salt to the fullest

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786467393

Length 378 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

SaltStack

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Joseph Hall

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Essentials Revisited FREE CHAPTER

2. Diving into Salt Internals

3. Managing States

4. Exploring Salt SSH

5. Managing Tasks Asynchronously

6. Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems

7. Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level

8. Using Salt with REST

9. Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports

10. Strategies for Scaling

11. Monitoring with Salt

12. Exploring Best Practices

13. Troubleshooting Problems

Chapter 4. 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

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Authors (1)

Joseph Hall

Joseph Hall

Starting as a support technician and progressing to being a web programmer, QA engineer, systems administrator, Linux instructor, and cloud engineer, Joseph Hall has touched just about every area of the modern technology world. He is currently a senior cloud and integrations engineer at SaltStack. Joseph enjoys working with some of the best minds in the business with his coworkers and SaltStack's partners. He is also the author of Extending SaltStack, Packt Publishing. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/techhat and on GitHub at https://github.com/techhat.

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