Introduction to Saltstack

Synopsis

This repository contains my Introduction to Saltstack training material. This is a two day course designed to quickly introduce System Administrators and Application Developers on how to start using Saltstack.

Outline

1. A brief introduction to Devops
2. What is Saltstack?
3. Saltstack components
4. An overview of the Saltstack Architecture.
5. Installing Saltstack A. From source B. Using apt-get on Ubuntu Linux C. To a Microsoft Windows client D. Bootstrapping Salt
6. Configuring the Salt Master
7. Configuring the Salt Minion
8. Executing commands on the Salt Master and Salt Minion
9. The Salt PKI
10. Introduction to YAML
11. Targeting Salt Minions
12. Salt States A. State Ordering
13. Salt Grains
14. Salt Pillars
15. Jinja2 Templating
16. Salt Formulas and the SPM
17. Salt Reactors
18. Salt Beacons
19. Creating multiple environments
20. Example of third party integration with Nagios.

Licensing

All documentation and code examples are licensed by Braun Brelin Copyright 2017 Under the Creative Commons Attribution + ShareAlike BY-SA License.