
Salt Essentials
Getting Started with Automation at Scale
O'Reilly (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-4919-0063-5 (ISBN)
Description
Get a complete introduction to Salt, the widely used Python-based configuration management and remote execution tool. This practical guide not only shows system administrators how to manage complex infrastructures with Salt, but also teaches developers how to use Salt to deploy and manage their applications. Written by two Salt experts, this book provides the information you need to deploy Salt in a production infrastructure right away. You'll also learn how to customize Salt and use salt-cloud to manage your virtualization. If you have experience with Linux and data formats such as JSON or XML, you're ready to get started. Understand what Salt can do, and get a high-level overview of basic commands Learn how execution modules let you interact with many systems at once Use states to define how you want a host or a set of hosts to look Dive into grains and pillars, Salt's basic data elements Control your infrastructure programmatically by extending Salt Master's functionality Extend Salt with custom modules, the Jinja templating language, and Python scripts
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4919-0063-5 (9781491900635)
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E-Book
06/2015
O'Reilly
€29.99
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Persons
Craig Sebenik is the technical lead for Salt at Linkedin, and he has been using Salt longer than almost anyone since LinkedIn represents the first major deployment of Salt. The LinkedIn infrastructure is also one of the largest deployments of Salt in the world today, lending a rare and insightful perspective on not only the use of Salt, but also the evolution of the project. Thomas S Hatch is the creator of Salt and CTO of SaltStack. Thomas is still the largest contributor to the Salt project despite the fact that Salt is now the largest developer community in DevOps.