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Salt Cookbook

You're reading from Salt Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784399740

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SaltStack

Concepts

Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Anirban Saha

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Salt Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Salt Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations

3. Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt

4. General Administration Tasks

5. Advanced Administration Tasks

6. Managing Application Servers

7. Managing Databases

8. Configuring Salt Cloud

9. Managing Amazon Web Services

10. Salt Event and Reactor System

11. Troubleshooting

Dealing with YAML configuration problems

Index

Chapter 11. Troubleshooting

In this chapter, you will cover:

Troubleshooting the Salt master
Troubleshooting the Salt minion
Dealing with too many open files
Connectivity, DNS, and ports
Dealing with YAML configuration problems

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Authors (1)

Anirban Saha

Anirban Saha

Anirban Saha is an infrastructure professional with more than six and half years of experience in infrastructure management at various industries and organizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. He was worked extensively with configuration management and automation tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform to name a few. He has extensive experience in architecting, deployment and management of large infrastructures. He speaks at various conferences on latest technologies and is also the author of Salt Cookbook published by Packt.

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