Automation with SaltStack - Streamline and Optimise Infrastructure Management with SaltStack for Enterprise-Grade Environments

Yogesh Raheja

Summary

Empower Your Infrastructure with SaltStack Automation.
Book Description
Unleash the full potential of SaltStack to transform your infrastructure management and automation practices. This book is crafted to provide clear, step-by-step guidance, ensuring you can apply SaltStack's capabilities to automate and streamline your workflows effectively.
Starting with the basics, the book introduces the fundamentals and SaltStack framework, guiding you through configuring and managing infrastructure with this versatile tool. Detailed chapters cover the architecture of SaltStack, various deployment models, and the prerequisites for setting up SaltStack masters and minions. You will learn how to effectively manage modules and perform remote execution tasks, mastering state file management and highstate concepts along the way.
Dive deep into advanced features such as grains for targeting and customizing data, Jinja templates for dynamic configuration, and multi-environment infrastructure management. Understand the critical role of pillars in SaltStack, their configuration, and their importance in managing sensitive data and configuring the state tree.
With a focus on practical application, this book includes real-world examples and scenarios to help you implement what you have learned. You will discover industry best practices for optimal configuration, deployment, maintenance, and scaling of SaltStack-managed infrastructure, ensuring your automation processes are efficient and robust.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to SaltStack and Its Framework
2. Architecture and SaltStack Deployment
3. Modules and Remote Execution with SaltStack
4. State File Management
5. HighState and Salt Tree
6. Grains, Jinja Templates, and Environments
7. Pillars
8. The Salt Event-Driven Infrastructure
9. Masterless and Agentless Salt
Index

Available since: 08/17/2024.

Science & Technology

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