Mastering SaltStack
Use Salt to the fullest
2nd Edition
Published on 13. January 2025
378 pages
978-1-78646-702-7 (ISBN)
Description
Take charge of SaltStack to automate and configure your enterprise-grade environments
Key Features
[*] 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
Book DescriptionSaltStack 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. 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
Who this book is forThis 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.
Key Features
[*] 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
Book DescriptionSaltStack 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. 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
Who this book is forThis 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.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Revised edition
File size
1,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78646-702-7 (9781786467027)
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Book
11/2016
Packt Publishing
€59.40
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Person
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.
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.
Content
Table of Contents
Essentials Revisited
Diving into Salt Internals
Managing States
Exploring Salt SSH
Managing Tasks Asynchronously
Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems
Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level
Using Salt with REST
Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports
Strategies for Scaling
Monitoring with Salt
Exploring Best Practices
Troubleshooting Problems
Essentials Revisited
Diving into Salt Internals
Managing States
Exploring Salt SSH
Managing Tasks Asynchronously
Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems
Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level
Using Salt with REST
Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports
Strategies for Scaling
Monitoring with Salt
Exploring Best Practices
Troubleshooting Problems
