SaltStack Training

SaltStack Training teaches how to centrally administer and manage multiple server environments. SaltStack software manages heterogeneous computing environments and offers several support packages in addition to expert consulting services.

SaltStack Training Curriculum

SaltStack Overview

The goal of SaltStack
Architectural overview of remote execution
Salt states
Grains
Pillar
Jinja2 and the virtual mechanism

Introduction to YAML

Literals, scalars
Sequences, mappings
Examples

Installation of SaltStack

Installation on Ubuntu
Differences between salt-common, salt-minion and salt-master
Installation on Amazon EC2

Salt command line basics

Anatomy of a salt command
Output formatting in JSON
The jq tool

Targeting minions

Globbing
Regular expressions
List matching
IP matching
Grains matching
Compound matching
Examples and exercises

States

Package management
Services
Highstate
Exercises and examples

Templating

Jinja2 introduction
For loop, assignments, escaping
Templating with Jinja2 in Salt, examples

Pillar

Secure storage
VNC password deployment example

Other interesting SaltStack concepts

Environments
salt-cloud
Orchestration
Integration with Docker.