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Learning SaltStack

You're reading from Learning SaltStack Build, manage, and secure your infrastructure with the power of SaltStack

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785881909

Length 202 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

SaltStack

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Myers

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Learning SaltStack Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Diving In – Our First Salt Commands FREE CHAPTER

2. Controlling Your Minions with Remote Execution

3. Execution Modules – Write Your Own Solution

4. Defining the State of Your Infrastructure

5. Expanding Our States with Jinja2 and Pillar

6. The Highstate and Environments

7. Using Salt Cloud to Manage Virtual Minions

8. The Reactor and the Event System

9. Security Best Practices in Salt

10. How Can I Get Involved?

Index

Chapter 9. Security Best Practices in Salt

In the previous chapter, you learned how to use the event system and the reactor in Salt to make a reactive, dynamic, and auto-healing infrastructure.

In this chapter, you will learn best practices to secure your Salt infrastructure. You will learn the following topics:

Security configuration options
Key management
Firewall and network configuration

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Authors (1)

Myers

Myers

Colton Myers is a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since graduating with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah, he has worked professionally, writing software in Python. He loves working on open source software and has made multiple appearances as a speaker at the US PyCon conference. Colton is a SaltStack Certified Trainer and has worked on the Salt open source software for years. He was previously a core engineer at SaltStack. At the time this book was published, he was a Python developer and systems engineer at Adobe. Find him on Twitter and Github at @basepi.

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