Learning SaltStack : learn how to manage your infrastructure by utilizing the power of SaltStack / Colton Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Colton, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--Distributed processing.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Learn how to manage your infrastructure by utilizing the power of SaltStack

Learning Salt Stack

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

If you are a system administrator who manages multiple servers, then you know how difficult it is to keep your infrastructure in line. If you've been searching for an easier way, this book is for you. No prior experience with SaltStack is required.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Diving In - Our First Salt Commands; Introducing Salt; Installing Salt; Installation with system packages (Ubuntu); Installing with Salt-Bootstrap; Configuring Salt; Firewall configuration; Salt minion configuration; Starting the Salt master and Salt minion; Accepting the minion key on the master; A game of ping pong; Masterless Salt; Summary; Chapter 2: Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution; The structure of a remote execution command; Command-line options

Targeting stringsGlob matching; Perl-compatible regular expression matching; List matching; Grain and pillar matching; Compound matching; Remote execution modules and functions; Adding users; Installing packages; Managing services; Monitoring minion states; Running arbitrary commands; Summary; Chapter 3: Execution Modules - Write Your Own Solution; Exploring the source; Cross-calling execution modules; Grains and the __virtual__ function; The__opts__ and __pillar__ functions; Reformatting return data; An advanced example; Summary; Chapter 4: Defining the State of Your Infrastructure

Our first stateThe pieces of a state declaration; Expanding to encompass multiple pieces of state; Dependencies using requisites; The require requisite; The watch requisite; Other requisites; The _in requisites; Summary; Chapter 5: Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar; Adding a new minion; Jinja2; apache2 or httpd?; Defining secure minion-specific data in pillar; Using pillar data in states; Summary; Chapter 6: The Highstate and Environments; The highstate; Environments; Environments in pillar; Expanding our base environment; Storing our states in Git with GitFS; Summary

Chapter 7: Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual MinionsSetting up Salt Cloud; Setting up Linode; Creating an API key; Creating a cloud provider configuration; Creating cloud VM profiles; Create and destroy machines; Managing groups of VMs with map files; Creating new masters with map files; Summary; Chapter 8: The Reactor and the Event System; The Salt event system; Listening for events; Event structure; Firing events from Salt; Firing events from custom code; Reacting to events; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 5, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784399016

1784399019

OCLC:

904442162