Salt cookbook : over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with salt / Anirban Saha ; acquisition editors Richard Gall, Sam Wood ; copy editors Charlotte Carneiro, Sameen Siddiqui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saha, Anirban, author.

Contributor:

Gall, Richard, editor.

Wood, Sam, editor.

Carneiro, Charlotte, editor.

Siddiqui, Sameen, editor.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

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

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

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Saha Anirban: Anirban Saha is an infrastructure professional with more than six and half years of experience in infrastructure management at various industries and organizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. He was worked extensively with configuration management and automation tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform to name a few. He has extensive experience in architecting, deployment and management of large infrastructures. He speaks at various conferences on latest technologies and is also the author of Salt Cookbook published by Packt.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewer""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Salt Architecture and Components""; ""Introduction""; ""Installing and configuring the Salt master""; ""Configuring the Salt environment and pillar paths""; ""Understanding and configuring Salt pillars""; ""Understanding and writing Salt states""; ""Understanding and writing the top file""; ""Installing and configuring Salt minion""; ""Configuring environments and grains on the minion""; ""Applying Salt states to minions""

""Chapter 2: Writing Advanced Salt Configurations""""Introduction""; ""Writing and retrieving pillar data""; ""Using pillar data in states""; ""Using grains in states""; ""Using conditionals in states and pillars""; ""Using Python functions in conditionals""; ""Using iterations in states""; ""Setting and using variables in states""; ""Testing a state run before applying to minions""; ""Configuring nodegroups""; ""Targeting minions""; ""Chapter 3: Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt""; ""Introduction""; ""Using execution modules""; ""Using state modules""; ""Configuring templates""

""Using requisites""""Using Salt runners""; ""Orchestration with Salt orchestrate""; ""Salt multi-master setup (active-active mode)""; ""Salt multi-master setup (active-passive mode)""; ""Chapter 4: General Administration Tasks""; ""Introduction""; ""Running commands""; ""Setting host entries and grains""; ""Setting time zone, locale, and kernel configurations""; ""Handling archive files""; ""Adding groups and users""; ""Performing SSH authentication tasks""; ""Scheduling jobs with cron""; ""Managing volumes""; ""Working with disks and mounts""; ""Managing network configurations""

""Chapter 5: Advanced Administration Tasks""""Introduction""; ""Managing package repositories""; ""Managing packages using the default package manager""; ""Managing packages using rvm, gem, and pip""; ""Managing files""; ""Managing services""; ""Managing code repositories with Git""; ""Managing code repositories with svn""; ""Configuring alternatives""; ""Chapter 6: Managing Application Servers""; ""Introduction""; ""Apache web server packages and services""; ""Managing web server modules""; ""Adding web server configuration""; ""Web server security with htpasswd""

""Setting up Java for Apache Tomcat""""Apache Tomcat packages, files, and service""; ""Deploying the WAR file in Apache Tomcat""; ""Chapter 7: Managing Databases""; ""Introduction""; ""Using MySQL packages, files, and services""; ""Using MySQL databases""; ""Creating MySQL database users""; ""Running MySQL queries""; ""Providing MySQL user grants""; ""Using PostgreSQL packages, files, and services""; ""Setting up PostgreSQL groups and users""; ""Configuring PostgreSQL databases""; ""Chapter 8: Configuring Salt Cloud""; ""Introduction""; ""Configuring the Salt cloud environment""

""Configuring cloud providers""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 8, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784397425

1784397423

OCLC:

915154350