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Mastering SaltStack

You're reading from   Mastering SaltStack Use Salt to the fullest

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467393
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joseph Hall Joseph Hall
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Mastering SaltStack Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Essentials Revisited FREE CHAPTER 2. Diving into Salt Internals 3. Managing States 4. Exploring Salt SSH 5. Managing Tasks Asynchronously 6. Taking Advantage of Salt Information Systems 7. Taking Salt Cloud to the Next Level 8. Using Salt with REST 9. Understanding the RAET and TCP Transports 10. Strategies for Scaling 11. Monitoring with Salt 12. Exploring Best Practices 13. Troubleshooting Problems

Using Salt Stack Formulas on GitHub


A number of formulas have been built by various engineers and are compiled together on GitHub under the Salt Stack Formulas organization. You can find these formulas at https://github.com/saltstack-formulas.

At the time of writing this, there are over 200 formulas hosted under this organization. Some are better maintained than others, but a number of them see frequent maintenance by the community.

Probably the most helpful thing about these formulas is that, outside of rare special cases, each software package that is supported by a formula will only have one formula. This is a vast improvement over similar user repositories, which may include dozens or even hundreds of different examples for the exact same package.

Examining the standard layout

Most formulas adhere to a standard layout, which has been developed and honed over time to help encourage a consistent look and feel. You will generally find the following files and directories:Because Cobbler is both...

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