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Extending SaltStack

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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785888618

Length 240 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

SaltStack

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Joseph Hall

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Extending SaltStack

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Starting with the Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Execution Modules

3. Extending Salt Configuration

4. Wrapping States Around Execution Modules

5. Rendering Data

6. Handling Return Data

7. Scripting with Runners

8. Adding External File Servers

9. Connecting to the Cloud

10. Monitoring with Beacons

11. Extending the Master

Connecting Different Modules

Contributing Code Upstream

Index

Chapter 3. Extending Salt Configuration

By now you know how to access configuration variables from the various parts of Salt, except for SDB modules, which will be covered in this chapter. But while setting static configuration is all fine and well, it can be very useful to be able to supply that data from an external source. In this chapter, you'll learn about:

Writing dynamic grains and external pillars
Troubleshooting grains and pillars
Writing and using SDB modules
Troubleshooting SDB modules

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Authors (1)

Joseph Hall

Joseph Hall

Starting 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 SaltStack's 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.

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