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.
- A brief introduction to Devops
- What is Saltstack?
- Saltstack components
- An overview of the Saltstack Architecture.
- Installing Saltstack A. From source B. Using apt-get on Ubuntu Linux C. To a Microsoft Windows client D. Bootstrapping Salt
- Configuring the Salt Master
- Configuring the Salt Minion
- Executing commands on the Salt Master and Salt Minion
- The Salt PKI
- Introduction to YAML
- Targeting Salt Minions
- Salt States A. State Ordering
- Salt Grains
- Salt Pillars
- Jinja2 Templating
- Salt Formulas and the SPM
- Salt Reactors
- Salt Beacons
- Creating multiple environments
- Example of third party integration with Nagios.
All documentation and code examples are licensed by Braun Brelin Copyright 2017 Under the Creative Commons Attribution + ShareAlike BY-SA License.