SaltStack for DevOps: Working with SaltStack Components
SaltStack 2019.2
| Intermediate
- 13 videos | 1h 2m 24s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
Explore the implementation and configuration of various Salt Stack products in this 13-video course, which discusses the architecture and architectural components and identifies Salt's characteristics and role in DevOps. Learners will see illustrations of the basic configuration of salt components, such as Salt master and Salt minion; learn to install, configure, and implement various products of Salt Stack; and learn to implement capabilities of agentless Salt grains, Salt engine, and execution modules. SaltStack Enterprise provides an intelligent automation platform which can manage secure and also optimize any infrastructure, whether it is on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Essential components of SaltStack Enterprise include its engine, its operations framework, and SaltStack SecOps, which provides the capability of customizing the policy or creating custom checks. Other key topics include Salt best practices, Salt Dependencies, and Salt Bootstrap. Learn to recognize implementation scenarios in which SaltStack Enterprise plays an important role. In a concluding exercise, learners will be asked to list core features of Salt, write Salt runner, and write execution module.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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discover the key concepts covered in this courselist the various products offered by SaltStack and their implementation scenariosrecognize the essential characteristics of Salt and the role Salt can play in implementing DevOps practicesdescribe the architecture of Salt along with its various componentsinstall Salt and illustrate the basic configuration of Salt master and Salt minionuse Salt agentless to run Salt commands without installing Salt miniondemonstrate the various operations that can be performed using Grains in Salt
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specify the essential functions in SaltUtil and job runnerspecify the essential components that are required to use Salt effectivelydemonstrate the steps involved in writing a Salt runner and the different modes of running Salt runnerswrite and configure Salt engine to enhance external processesdemonstrate the steps involved in writing execution modules and calling them on Salt masterrecall the various architectural components of SaltStack, write a Salt runner, and write execution modules
IN THIS COURSE
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1.Course Overview1m 28sUP NEXT
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2.SaltStack Products and Implementation Scenarios6m 37s
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3.Characteristics and Role of Salt in DevOps5m 29s
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4.Salt Architecture and Components7m 40s
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5.Installing and Configuring Salt Master and Minion5m 47s
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6.Agentless Salt6m 2s
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7.Salt Grains4m 23s
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8.SaltUtil and Job Runner3m 30s
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9.Using Salt5m 31s
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10.Salt Runners and Runner Modes4m 31s
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11.Salt Engine5m 10s
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12.Execution Modules3m 10s
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13.Exercise: Working with Salt Capabilities3m 8s
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