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Use and Modify Official SaltStack Formulas

Salt State Files

The SaltStack Platform is made up of two primary components: A remote execution engine which handles bi-directional communication for any node within your infrastructure (master and minions), and a configuration management system which maintains all infrastructure nodes in a defined state. Salt’s configuration management system is known as the Salt State system. A Salt state is declared within a Salt State file (SLS) using YAML syntax and represents the information Salt needs to configure minions. A Salt Formula is a collection of related SLS files that will achieve a common configuration.

Secrets Management with Salt

Salt is a powerful configuration management tool which helps you manage your server deployments with configuration state files. These files are easily shared with others on your team and can be checked in to version control systems like Git.

Introduction to Jinja Templates for Salt

Introduction to Templating Languages

Jinja is a flexible templating language for Python that can be used to generate any text based format such as HTML, XML, and YAML. Templating languages like Jinja allow you to insert data into a structured format. You can also embed logic or control-flow statements into templates for greater reusability and modularity. Jinja’s template engine is responsible for processing the code within the templates and generating the output to the final text based document.

Create a Salt Execution Module

A Salt execution module is a Python module that runs on a Salt minion. It perform tasks and returns data to the Salt master. In this tutorial you will create and install an execution module that will call the US National Weather Service API and return the current temperature at a specified weather station. This example could easily be adapted to access any API.

Configure Apache with Salt Stack

Salt is a powerful configuration management tool. In this guide you will create Salt state files that are capable of installing and configuring Apache on Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 9, or CentOS 7.

Monitoring Salt Minions with Beacons

Every action performed by Salt, such as applying a highstate or restarting a minion, generates an event. Beacons emit events for non-salt processes, such as system state changes or file changes. This guide will use Salt beacons to notify the Salt master of changes to minions, and Salt reactors to react to those changes.

A Beginner's Guide to Salt

Salt (also referred to as SaltStack) is a Python-based configuration management and orchestration system. Salt uses a master/client model in which a dedicated Salt master server manages one or more Salt minion servers. Two of Salt’s primary jobs are:

Automate Static Site Deployments with Salt, Git, and Webhooks

This guide will walk through the deployment of a static site using SaltStack, which is a flexible configuration management system. The configuration files created for Salt will be version controlled using Git. Updates to your static site’s code will be automatically communicated to the production system using webhooks, an event notification system for the web.

Test Salt States Locally with KitchenSalt

KitchenSalt allows you to use Test Kitchen to test your Salt configurations locally without a Salt master or minions. In this guide you will install KitchenSalt and use Docker to test a Salt state. This guide was created using a system running Ubuntu 18.04.

SaltStack Command Line Reference

SaltStack is a powerful configuration management tool. The following is a quick-reference guide for Salt’s command line interface (CLI).

Using Salt Cloud and Cloud Maps to Provision Systems

Configure and Use Salt SSH to Manage Your Linodes

Introduction to Salt SSH

Salt SSH allows you to execute Salt commands, or states, without installing a salt-minion package.

Getting Started with Salt - Basic Installation and Setup

Salt is a Python-based configuration management platform designed to control a number of slave servers (called Minions in Salt terminology) from a single master server. This guide walks you through configuring a Salt Master and Minion, and is relevant to any supported Linux distribution.

Use Salt States to Configure a LAMP Stack on a Minion

This tutorial will configure a Minion’s LAMP stack with further use of Salt States. This tutorial is written for Debian 8 but can easily be adjusted for other Linux Distributions. You will need a working Salt master and minion configuration before starting this guide. If you need to set up that prerequisite, see our Salt installation guide to get started.

Use Salt States to Create LAMP Stack and Fail2ban Across Salt minions

Salt States can install and define a server setup on other servers. This tutorial demonstrates the use of Salt States to create a LAMP stack across all Salt Minions.

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