Learning Salt: Automate and manage your infrastructure

Key benefits

• Leverage the power of Salt to build, manage and secure your infrastructure effectively
• Gain proficiency with key skills to use commands and control the state of your infrastructure,
• Manage virtual servers on public or private clouds using Salt Cloud

Description

Who is this book for?

What you will learn

• How to Install and configure Salt.
• How Salt communicates between machines.
• The difference and distinction between the various Salt module types.
• How and why to use execution modules.
• Understand Salt's state system.
• Write and manage complex states.
• Run complex state trees that span multiple systems.
• Use and react to real-time events across an infrastructure.
• Integrate Salt with other tools, both internal and external.