Chapter 6. Using Salt with REST
We've discussed using Salt not only to manage an infrastructure from within, but also to grow the infrastructure using Salt Cloud. But what happens when you need to manage your infrastructure from the outside? Or if you want your infrastructure to take advantage of external systems? In this chapter, we'll explore how Salt makes use of REST interfaces, both as a client and as a server. We'll be covering the following topics here:
- Taking advantage of Salt's HTTP library
- Setting up Salt API
- Communicating as a client or as a server
- Parsing data
