Course Overview:
Saltstack (Salt for short) is open source software developed to automate the configuration of server systems. During this course you will learn how to centrally administer and manage multiple server environments.
Course Objectives:
- The course will be a good mixture of presentations, examples and lab exercises so that you can immediately apply what you have learned Saltstack is an open-source software developed to automate the configuration of server systems. During this course, you will learn how to centrally administer and manage multiple server environments.
Pre-requisites:
- Basic Unix/Linux administration knowledge is necessary to grasp the more advanced topics in this course.
Target Audience:
- System Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
Course Duration:
- 21 hours – 3 days
Course Content:
Salt overview
- The goal of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the virtual mechanism
Introduction to YAML
- Literals, scalars
- Sequences, mappings
- Examples
Installation of Salt
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Differences between salt-common, salt-minion and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
Salt command line basics
- Anatomy of a salt command.
- Output formatting in JSON.
- The jq tool.
Targeting minions
- Globbing
- Regular expressions
- List matching
- IP matching
- Grains matching
- Compound matcing
- Examples and exercises
States
- Package management
- Services
- Highstate
- Salt formulas
- Exercises, examples
Templating
- Jinja2 introduction
- For loop, assignments, escaping
- Templating with Jinja2 in Salt, examples
Pillar
- Secure storage
- VNC password deployment example
Extending Salt
- Writing execution modules
- Extending Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data
- Handling return data
- Scripting with runners
- Adding external file servers
- Connecting to the cloud
- Monitoring with beacons
- Extending the master (multi-masters)
Other interesting SaltStack concepts
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Integration with Docker
- Salt for windows
- Summary and Closing Remarks
