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Learn how to manage your infrastructure by utilizing the power of SaltStack

About This Book

Execute commands and enforce the state of your entire infrastructure in seconds.
Make managing your servers as easy as visualizing the end goal -- let SaltStack do the heavy lifting through the state system.
Learn by doing in this step by step guide to getting started with SaltStack.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator who manages multiple servers, then you know how difficult it is to keep your infrastructure in line. If you've been searching for an easier way, this book is for you. No prior experience with SaltStack is required.

What You Will Learn

Install Salt on all of your servers
Run commands on all or some of your minions instantly from a central managing server
Write custom Salt modules to handle your infrastructure's unique needs
Define the state of your infrastructure and use Salt to enforce that state
Create platform-agnostic state definitions for greater flexibility and power
Manage virtual servers on public or private clouds using Salt Cloud
Use the event system in Salt to create a reactive and self-healing infrastructure

In Detail

SaltStack is one of the best infrastructure management platforms available. It provides powerful tools for defining and enforcing the state of your infrastructure in a clear, concise way.

This book will start with the installation and setup of Salt along with your first commands, and will take you through all the tools you'll need to manage your infrastructure. You'll learn how to use SaltStack's remote execution system to run commands across your whole infrastructure in seconds. Then, with SaltStack's configuration management system, you'll be able to define the state of your infrastructure in a reproducible, stable manner. You'll also learn a number of other tools within SaltStack that will allow you to create an adaptive, reactive, and self-healing infrastructure. Finally, by the end of the book, you'll be able to build a reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure and fully utilize the power of cloud computing.

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Colton 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. Colton loves working on open source software, and he has represented the US PyCon conference as a speaker multiple times. He is a SaltStack Certified Trainer and has worked on the Salt open source software for years. At the time of writing this book, Colton was working as a platform engineer for SaltStack. You can find him on Twitter and GitHub at @basepi.

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (February 27, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1784394602
ISBN-13: 978-1784394608
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,599,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #932 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking & Cloud Computing > Cloud Computing
- #2719 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking & Cloud Computing > Networks, Protocols & APIs

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ArtFan

so-so

May 19, 2016

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I wasn't as happy with this book as I thought I would have been based on the reviews. I thought the chapter material was organized in kind of a weird manner, and a lot of things were glossed over. Basically I was approaching it as someone who, at work, is needing to learn Salt to start working with an existing implementation of it in a production environment (several hundred hosts, different salt masters for different data centers) and I found that the book "kinda" got me a little more towards where I needed to be, but didnt' go into enough depth on the functions we are using frequently in our environment (file.managed, order = , etc).

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Raja Vairaashtak

Good introductory book

June 12, 2017

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Pretty good for beginners. Covers all the basic information about SaltStack. Explained in easy way and lots of practical examples.

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alphonsez

Excellent

October 31, 2016

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Explains the core concepts of salt quickly with working examples. I can finish the book quickly then start playing with salt to structure my project.

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Five Stars

February 5, 2016

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Well written and to the point :)

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nes

A good tutorial packaged as abook

February 3, 2016

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I was a bit disappointed by this book, I had the impression of reading a tutorial and not an edited book, the leat I expect from a book is to bring some insight on the subject and the problems addressed by SaltStack.

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Alejandro Bonilla

Four Stars

June 19, 2015

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too focused on one Linux distribution - should also focus more on the concept and architecture.

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Tod Hansmann

More than I expected, definitely thorough, but should be viewed as a beginning.

March 12, 2015

I've approached SaltStack several times as dev and sysadmin, and it's always been a confusing mess. So when this book came along I was hoping it was a bit more organized than the docs have ever lead me along with. Let's discuss. I can do a more in-depth version and a short version, let's start long.

In-Depth:

Colton begins with a presentation I've seen in many mediums, installing salt as a master and a minion, and running a few commands remotely. Where this comes across differently is it explains everything extremely thoroughly and in a way that progressively builds on the core concepts to show what's happening and how to interpret things. It assumes nothing.

If that were the end, it would be an improvement, and cover just about everything I've ever seen presented in user groups. For this book it's just the beginning. We're exposed to not only remote execution, but discussion of grains as a concept for organizing your infrastructure beyond names, and states to ensure configuration management happens in a straightforward way. Then he brings in pillars, which is never a concept that made sense when explained in the documentation. Suffice to say, without even having to diagram it out, I followed along perfectly with what pillars were and how to utilize them and even modify them after deployment. Finishing it off with environments, events, and cloud features covers enough bases to manage any infrastructure.

Extension is actually the feature that takes the cake here. Colton thankfully doesn't just explain what Salt is and how to use it. If you've ever done infrastructure management you know it's not enough to just get the off-the-shelf functionality they give you. Here we're exposed to how to extend every aspect of the Salt system, to handle just about any need one would like to run with. You'll need your own YAML and jinja2 primer, but that's not difficult. The extensibility with examples is the value that will make any reader a Salt master by the end of it.

As a technical book, it's more narrative than most code references but still very verbose in the command-line output, so do be prepared to think while you read. Things not covered, if you are concerned with these areas, which I don't think were "missing" to me because they're not important in my mind, but aren't there in case you think they are important:
- Windows
- Any sort of interop beyond the event system
- In-depth security (this is broached so you can do more research if this is important, this just won't BE your research reference)

In all, well worth the price if you have to manage infrastructure. It was more than I hoped for, and is a great beginning to intermediate book.

Summary Review:

If you want to learn and you've seemed confused looking at just about anything, this is a great introduction that carries you along the path to doing something useful and discovering the depth in areas you need. The nice thing about the book is that it exposes you to just about every area of SaltStack I've ever heard anything about, so you can then formulate the possibilities. Not every example is applicable to your infrastructure, far from it, but it is easy to produce with a couple virtual machines and follow along with everything just to learn. Then you can take to the docs to expand.

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Brian Binovsky

Not sure what SaltStack can do for you? Give this book a quick read it is well worth the price.

March 20, 2015

I've used Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack in enterprise networks. SaltStack is a powerful tool which tends to have insufficient advocacy. I bought this book because after a few years using SaltStack I consistently found myself explaining the core concepts of SaltStack to people I was discussing the subject with. Often referencing familiar elements of Chef because Chef has greater advocacy and perhaps more exposure. I found the coverage of this book to be complete without resorting to being daunting to read. It covers the basic setup. It covers the many features and why these features are valuable with decent examples. I found a few aspects about the SaltStack Pillars and SaltStack Grains that could perhaps use a bit more information in the book that would be relevant in the infrastructure and security context (maybe one paragraph would be a good addition). However I am confident that anyone that takes the time to comprehend this book will be able to fill in these missing elements with relevant Internet searches. I have recommended this book several times in person at Meetups and in discussions and I have no issue recommending this book on Amazon. A quick review of my profile will show that I am not overly prone to publicly expressing opinions on most of my purchases. This book and SaltStack was worth the unusual level of recommendation from me as a technical professional and SaltStack user.

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