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Mastering SaltStack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467393
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joseph Hall Joseph Hall
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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

Future-proofing your infrastructure

One of the most aggravating things about technology is its ability to change before you can adapt, and in some cases, before you even finish implementing what was considered new when you started. Future-proofing refers to planning things out as far in advance as possible. It also refers to working in a way that minimizes the amount of work that will have to be done in the future to make the current technology still work.

One of the most famous examples of code that was not future-proofed was the Year 2000 or the Y2K bug. For those who missed it, here's what happened. Developers needed to store dates. It was already common usage outside computers to store two-digit years. For example, January 1, 1970 may be stored as 1/1/70. Using a two-digit year saved space, which was at a premium at the time.

Unfortunately, far more of the code that used this strategy survived into the future than was expected. Even worse, even some code written in the 1990s was...

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