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Mastering SaltStack

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

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Oct 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    SaltStack is known as a popular configuration management system, but that barely scratches the surface. It is, in fact, a powerful automation suite, which is designed not only to help you manage your servers, but to help them manage themselves. SaltStack is used worldwide by organizations ranging from just a few servers, to tens of thousands of nodes across data centers in multiple continents. This award-winning software is fast becoming the standard for systems management in the cloud world.
    This book will take you through the advanced features of SaltStack, bringing forward capabilities that will help you excel in the management of your servers.
    You will be taken through the the mind of the modern systems engineer, and discover how they use Salt to manage their infrastructures, and why those design decisions are so important. The inner workings of Salt will be explored, so that as you advance your knowledge of Salt, you will be able to swim with the current, rather than against it.
    Various subsystems of Salt are explained in detail, including Salt SSH, Salt Cloud, and external pillars, filesystems, and job caches.
    You will be taken through an in-depth discussion of how to effectively scale Salt to manage thousands of machines, and how to troubleshoot issues when things don't go exactly the way you expect them to.
    You will also be taken through an overview of RAET, Salt's new transport protocol, and given an insight into how this technology improves Salt, and the possibilities that it brings with it.

    What you will learn

      Who this book is for

      Table of Contents

      1. Reviewing a Few Essentials
      2. Diving into Salt Internals
      3. Exploring Salt SSH
      4. Managing Tasks Asynchronously
      5. Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level
      6. Using Salt with REST
      7. Understanding the RAET Protocol
      8. Strategies for Scaling
      9. Monitoring with Salt
      10. Exploring Best Practices
      11. Troubleshooting Problems
      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-838-8
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 306
      Related subjects:
      Computer sciences,
      Networking
      BISAC subjects:
      COM043000,
      COM021050,
      COM091000
      Thema subjects:
      UT,
      UN,
      UTC

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