English
29 July 2015
ISBN: 1784399744
350 Pages
EPUB/MOBI/PDF
With: Code Files

If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.

Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

About This Book

Start with the basics and move on to advanced features and configurations of the Salt configuration management tool
Configure the tool for optimal performance and troubleshoot probable issues
Write Salt configurations for all infrastructural needs, including the operating system with help of detailed examples.

What You Will Learn

Understand the basic Salt architecture and components and learn how to configure them
Understand and configure advanced Salt components and manipulate configurations
Configure Salt modules, the orchestration procedure and set up multi-master configurations
Configure operating system components such as files, users, volumes, authentication, and so on
Leverage the cloud capabilities of Salt
Understand and configure the Salt event and reactor system

In Detail

Salt has become one of the major players in automation and configuration management solutions.

This book starts with the basics of the tool, the procedures to get up and running with Salt and then moves on to configuring very simple but important details to receive optimal performance from the tool. It also walks you through Salt configurations for different infrastructure components and the details of the Salt modules for each of the components. The book also provides some common problem scenarios and how to troubleshoot them.

With detailed configuration, their explanation and command line outputs of the module execution, Salt Cookbook will help you to get up and running with Salt for all your infrastructural needs.

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