Mastering SaltStack : take charge of SaltStack to automate and configure your enterprise-grade environments / Joseph Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Automation.

Computer networks.

Cloud computing.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Take charge of SaltStack to automate and configure your enterprise-grade environments

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Hall Joseph: Starting as a support technician and progressing to being a web programmer, QA engineer, systems administrator, Linux instructor, and cloud engineer, Joseph Hall has touched just about every area of the modern technology world. He is currently a senior cloud and integrations engineer at SaltStack. Joseph enjoys working with some of the best minds in the business with his coworkers and SaltStack's partners. He is also the author of Extending SaltStack, Packt Publishing. You can find him on LinkedIn at https: //www. linkedin. com/in/techhat and on GitHub at https: //github. com/techhat.

Summary:

Take charge of SaltStack to automate and configure your enterprise-grade environments About This Book Automate tasks effectively and take charge of your infrastructure Effectively scale Salt to manage thousands of machines and tackle everyday problems Explore Salt's inner workings and advance your knowledge of it Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for IT professionals and ops engineers who already manage groups of servers, but would like to expand their knowledge and gain expertise with SaltStack. This book explains the advanced features and concepts of Salt. A basic knowledge of Salt is required in order to get to grips with advanced Salt features. What You Will Learn Automate tasks effectively, so that your infrastructure can run itself Start building more complex concepts Master user-level internals Build scaling strategies Explore monitoring strategies Learn how to troubleshoot Salt and its subcomponents Explore best practices for Salt In Detail SaltStack is a powerful configuration management and automation suite designed to manage servers and tens of thousands of nodes. This book showcases Salt as a very powerful automation framework. We will review the fundamental concepts to get you in the right frame of mind, and then explore Salt in much greater depth. You will explore Salt SSH as a powerful tool and take Salt Cloud to the next level. Next, you'll master using Salt services with ease in your infrastructure. You will discover methods and strategies to scale your infrastructure properly. You will also learn how to use Salt as a powerful monitoring tool. By the end of this book, you will have learned troubleshooting tips and best practices to make the entire process of using Salt pain-free and easy. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step conversational tone. Topics are covered in detail through examples and a user-friendly approach.

Contents:

Mastering SaltStack: Use Salt to the fullest

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2017).

ISBN:

9781786467027

178646702X

OCLC:

966617013