SaltStack Tutorial

SaltStack - Salt for Cloud Infrastructure
Salt provides a separate module, Salt Cloud to provide virtual machines of various cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Google Compute, etc. Salt Cloud is a generic interface to configure and manage VMs of various cloud providers.
SaltStack - Access Control System
An Access Control System provides options for a user for a group to execute a task with permissions. A Salt access control system is used to configure access to non-administrative control interfaces. You can apply this process to all the systems. This control helps the non-administrative users to ex
SaltStack - Competitors
Salt, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible are the leading configuration management and orchestration tools, each of which takes a different path to server automation. They were built to make it easier to configure and maintain dozens, hundreds or even thousands of servers.
SaltStack - Working Example
In this working example, we will create a Salt formula that will configure the apache web server along with the PHP software. Salt is a great way to execute ad-hoc commands, but you would not really want to continually configure your infrastructure this way. By creating a set of Salt formulas, you c
SaltStack - Orchestration
In general, orchestration is an automated coordination and arrangement of systems. Orchestrate runner is used to perform the orchestration in SaltStack.
SaltStack - Git as a File Server
Git is an open-source distributed version control system. It can be used to keep a track of changes in any files. Salt sends files from Git repositories using the Git file server. You can configure Git to the fileserver_backend list option and if you need to configure one or more repositories, you c

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