Mastering SaltStack - Second Edition by Joseph Hall

Key FeaturesAutomate tasks effectively and take charge of your infrastructureEffectively scale Salt to manage thousands of machines and tackle everyday problemsExplore Salts inner workings and advance your knowledge of itBook DescriptionSaltStack is a powerful configuration management and automation suite designed to manage servers and tens of thousands of nodes. This book showcases Salt as a very powerful automation framework. We will review the fundamental concepts to get you in the right frame of mind, and then explore Salt in much greater depth. You will explore Salt SSH as a powerful tool and take Salt Cloud to the next level. Next, youll master using Salt services with ease in your infrastructure. You will discover methods and strategies to scale your infrastructure properly. You will also learn how to use Salt as a powerful monitoring tool.By the end of this book, you will have learned troubleshooting tips and best practices to make the entire process of using Salt pain-free and easy.What you will learnAutomate tasks effectively, so that your infrastructure can run itselfStart building more complex conceptsMaster user-level internalsBuild scaling strategiesExplore monitoring strategiesLearn how to troubleshoot Salt and its subcomponentsExplore best practices for SaltAbout the AuthorStarting as a support technician and progressing to being a web programmer, QA engineer, systems administrator, Linux instructor, and cloud engineer, Joseph Hall has touched just about every area of the modern technology world. He is currently a senior cloud and integrations engineer at SaltStack. Joseph enjoys working with some of the best minds in the business with his coworkers and SaltStacks partners. He is also the author of Extending SaltStack, Packt Publishing.You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/techhat and on GitHub at https://github.com/techhat.Table of ContentsEssentials RevisitedDiving into Salt InternalsManaging StatesExploring Salt SSHManaging Tasks AsynchronouslyTaking Advantage of Salt Information SystemsTaking Salt Cloud to the Next LevelUsing Salt with RESTUnderstanding the RAET and TCP TransportsStrategies for ScalingMonitoring with SaltExploring Best PracticesTroubleshooting Problems