There is a rapid growth of automation in server rooms and data centers. The days of having many
administrators running around busily configuring and maintaining servers are gone and have been
replaced with droves of Salt-Minions agents beavering away on the target nodes ensuring the
configuration is as specified. This book covers Salt Open (also known as SaltStack Open) from
the ground up and shows you how to work with two Linux distributions. You'll see how Salt Open
is duplicated with ArubaOS and IOS networking devices which can be configured without the
underlying OS. As you step through the configuration options you'll learn how to run remote
execution modules from the CLI before looking at stateful configuration using SLS files. Moving
on you'll learn how to configure the systems where you also need to monitor your devices and
that is when reactors and beacons come into play. Creating beacons to alert the server when
thresholds are exceeded you will be able to create reactors to mitigate the issues identified
by the beacons. By the end of this book you will be able to deploy Salt to your servers and
network infrastructure. You will be able to install the Salt-Master and Salt-Minion executing
commands from both the Master and the Minion. The networking devices you need to manage will be
controlled through the Salt_Proxy Minions that you have configured. Finally you will be able
to load-balance connections to the master with Salt-Syndic. What You'll Learn Install Salt
Services on Ubuntu and CentOS based systems Work with remote execution modules Format YAML
files correctly Provide defined configuration using state files Use Salt-Proxy to configure
network devices Automate the configuration of Linux servers and networking devices Add value
for both the server and network automation team Who This Book Is ForSystem administrators
experienced in Linux administration who desire to expand their horizons into the world of
automation moving from scripts to states.
