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Use and Modify Official SaltStack Formulas

Salt State FilesThe SaltStack Platform is made up of two primary components: A remote execution engine which handles bi-directional communication for any node within your infrastructure (master and minions), and a configuration management system which maintains all infrastructure nodes in a defined state.

Secrets Management with Salt

Salt is a powerful configuration management tool which helps you manage your server deployments with configuration state files.

Introduction to Jinja Templates for Salt

Introduction to Templating LanguagesJinja is a flexible templating language for Python that can be used to generate any text based format such as HTML, XML, and YAML.

Create a Salt Execution Module

A Salt execution module is a Python module that runs on a Salt minion. It perform tasks and returns data to the Salt master.

Configure Apache with Salt Stack

Salt is a powerful configuration management tool. In this guide you will create Salt state files that are capable of installing and configuring Apache on Ubuntu 18.

Monitoring Salt Minions with Beacons

Every action performed by Salt, such as applying a highstate or restarting a minion, generates an event.

A Beginner's Guide to Salt

Salt (also referred to as SaltStack) is a Python-based configuration management and orchestration system. Salt uses a master/client model in which a dedicated Salt master server manages one or more Salt minion servers.

Automate Static Site Deployments with Salt, Git, and Webhooks

This guide will walk through the deployment of a static site using SaltStack, which is a flexible configuration management system.

Test Salt States Locally with KitchenSalt

KitchenSalt allows you to use Test Kitchen to test your Salt configurations locally without a Salt master or minions.

SaltStack Command Line Reference

SaltStack is a powerful configuration management tool. The following is a quick-reference guide for Salt’s command line interface (CLI).

Using Salt Cloud and Cloud Maps to Provision Systems

What is Salt Cloud?Salt Cloud is a configuration management tool that allows users to provision systems on cloud hosts or hypervisors.

Configure and Use Salt SSH to Manage Your Linodes

Introduction to Salt SSHSalt SSH allows you to execute Salt commands, or states, without installing a salt-minion package.

Getting Started with Salt - Basic Installation and Setup

Salt is a Python-based configuration management platform designed to control a number of slave servers (called Minions in Salt terminology) from a single master server.

Use Salt States to Configure a LAMP Stack on a Minion

This tutorial will configure a Minion’s LAMP stack with further use of Salt States. This tutorial is written for Debian 8 but can easily be adjusted for other Linux Distributions.

Use Salt States to Create LAMP Stack and Fail2ban Across Salt minions

Salt States can install and define a server setup on other servers. This tutorial demonstrates the use of Salt States to create a LAMP stack across all Salt Minions.

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