IT Automation with Saltstack - bespoke Training Course
Course
In City Of London
Description
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Course
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Location
City of london
Saltstack (Salt for short) is open source software developed to automate the configuration of server systems. During this course you will learn how to centrally administer and manage multiple server environments.
The course will be a good mixture of presentations, examples and lab exercises so that you can immediately apply what you have learnt.
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Subjects
- Server
- Installation
- Anatomy
- Systems
- IP
- Architectural
Course programme
Salt overview
- The goal of SaltStack
- Architectural overview of remote execution
- Salt states
- Grains
- Pillar
- Jinja2 and the virtual mechanism
- Literals, scalars
- Sequences, mappings
- Examples
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Differences between salt-common, salt-minion and salt-master
- Installation on Amazon EC2
- Anatomy of a salt command
- Output formatting in JSON
- The jq tool
- Globbing
- Regular expressions
- List matching
- IP matching
- Grains matching
- Compound matcing
- Examples and exercises
- Package management
- Services
- Highstate
- Salt formulas
- Exercises, examples
- Jinja2 introduction
- For loop, assignments, escaping
- Templating with Jinja2 in Salt, examples
- Secure storage
- VNC password deployment example
- Writing execution modules
- Extending Salt configuration
- Wrapping states around execution modules
- Rendering data
- Handling return data
- Scripting with runners
- Adding external file servers
- Connecting to the cloud
- Monitoring with beacons
- Extending the master (multi-masters)
- Environments
- Orchestration
- Integration with Docker
- Salt for windows
IT Automation with Saltstack - bespoke Training Course