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Salt Cookbook

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

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|Jan 2015

Key Features

    Book Description

    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.

    What you will learn

    • Understand the basic Salt architecture and components and learn how to configure them
    • Understand and configure advanced Salt components and manipulate configurations
    • Configure Salt modules, the orchestration procedure and set up multimaster configurations
    • Configure operating system components such as files, users, volumes, authentication, and so on
    • Leverage the cloud capabilities of Salt
    • Understand and configure the Salt event and reactor system

    Who this book is for

    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.

    Table of Contents

    1. Salt Architecture and Components
    2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations
    3. Scaling Salt, Orchestration and Targeting Minions
    4. Managing Builtin Modules, Groups, Users and Keys
    5. Advanced administration tasks
    6. Managing General Administration Tasks
    7. Managing Applications
    8. Managing Databases
    9. Configuring Salt Cloud
    10. Salt Reactor and Event System
    11. Troubleshooting
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-742-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 350
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