Chapter 1: Understanding Salt and Configuration AutomationChapter Goal: Learn about Salt Open and its' commercial sibling, SaltConfig, from VMwareNo of pages 8
Sub - Topics-
Salt Open and the SaltProject
SaltConfig and VMware
Speed, the Salt advantage
Speed, the Salt advantage Chapter 2: Installing Salt Chapter Goal: In this chapter we will outline the labs systems used throughout the book and optional networking equipment before moving onto installing the Salt-Master Salt-Minions and providing basic tests
No of pages: 12
Sub - Topics
1. Identity Lab setup
2. Install latest version of Salt Master and Minions
3. Configuring Master and Minions 4. Configuring Times Services
5. Signing Keys
6. Implementing basic tests
7. Implement firewalling on the Salt Master
Chapter 3: Installing Additional Minions Chapter Goal: We have just one server and a Minion on the same server. We will now expand this to include additional Linux distribution and learn more about Salt authentication
No of pages: 8
Sub - Topics:
1. Authenticating with Minion public keys and key management
2. Automating key signing
3. Locating the Salt Master
4. Automating the Minion ID Chapter 4: Targeting Minions
Chapter Goal: Learn how we can target tasks to the required Minions in Salt Open
No of pages: 12
Sub - Topics:
1. Salt Targeting
2. Understanding grains and using them as targets
3. Targeting using regular expressions and IP notation
4. Creating Node groups and using them as targets
Chapter 5: Working with Remote Execution Modules in Salt Open
Chapter Goal: At the heart of Salt we have remote execution modules and we stale a look at the construction in Python and how we use them and find their documentation
No of pages: 15
Sub topics
1. Using Modules and Functions
2. Listing the salt module indices
3. Using salt and salt-call to execute modules 4. Locate command line help
5. The big three: packages, services, and files
Chapter 6: Writing YAML Chapter Goal: Learn to write and understand YAML files. Configure your command line editor for YAML
No of pages: 8
Sub - Topics:
1. YAML Ain't Markup Language
2. Using Online Parser to process YAML
3. Configuring the nano editor
4. Configuring the vim editor for YAML and SLS files
Chapter 7: Writing Salt State Files
Chapter Goal: Create repeatable configurations using SLS files
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics:
1. State vs Flow 2. Jinja and YAML Parsing
3. Creating Jinja2 templates
4. Installing packages with Salt states
5. Managing services with state files
6. &n
About the Author: Andrew is a well known Linux consultant and trainer, his YouTube Channel has over 65K subscribers and more than 1000 videos. Working mainly online now Andrew has authored courses on both Pluralsight and Udemy and regularly teaches classes online to a worldwide audience. Andrew is familiar with Linux and UNIX and has worked with them for over 20 years. Scripting and automation is one of his passions as he is inherently lazy and will always seek the most effective way of getting the job done. The Urban Penguin, his alter-ego, is a UK based company where his work is created from and currently employs 5 people.
