Salt: Getting Started
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course serves as a primer for using Salt to manage system configurations. You’re going to get a tour of the critical path elements in Salt so that you can start using it yourself.
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Course Description
Stop configuring your servers by hand! In this course, Salt: Getting Started, you'll see how to automate software installation, configuration changes, and deployments using Salt. First, you'll learn about installation and network configuration; and how to get the Salt software installed and configured. Next, you'll use states (Salt's declarative specification for configuration changes) and learn how to wrangle sensitive information like usernames, passwords, and certificates in a secure way. Finally, you'll wrap up the course learning about automating and coordinating configuration changes across multiple machines using Salt’s powerful orchestration mechanism. By the end of this course, you’ll have a basic working knowledge of how to install and use Salt to manage Linux systems.
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Course Syllabus
Course Overview- 1m 28s
—Course Overview 1m 28sThe Basics: Installing and Testing- 22m 21s
—Features of Salt 5m 20s
—Installing Salt 5m 24s
—Salt Topology and Security 2m 59s
—Targeting Minions 4m 10s
—Running Remote Commands 2m 14s
—Recap 2m 12sStates: Keeping the Configuration Under Control- 39m 26sGrains: Machine-specific Data- 23m 27sPillar and Templating: Parameterizing States- 17m 32sOrchestration and Mining: Coordinating Configuration Changes- 41m 17s
