Saltstack For The Absolute Beginners - Practical Devops

What you'll learn
Introduction to Automation with SaltStack
Deploy and Configure Salt Master and Minions
Develop Salt code using Salt State Files
Salt State Tree and Highstate
Salt File Server and Requisites System
Insights to Concepts like Grains, Jinja Templates, Pillars, Masterless and Agentless Models
Requirements
Basic Unix/Linux Knowledge
AWS Free Tier Account (Optional)
Description
What's in this course?This SaltStack course, designed for absolute beginners, introduces the basic fundamental blocks needed to get started with SaltStack. The course begins with an introduction to SaltStack and Salt's key terminologies followed by real time SaltStack setup, In-depth Architecture, Salt Modules. This course also covers some of the core critical concepts such as State Files, State Tree, HighState, important Salt configuration files, Grains, Pillars, Jinja Templates, Agentless Salt, Masterless Salt and much more. Don't worry if you are new to SaltStack, we are going to get started with the absolute basics. Each lecture in this course is accompanied by real hands-on demos.What is SaltStack?In today's complex IT landscape, managing numerous servers and ensuring consistent configurations across them can be a daunting task. This is where SaltStack steps in, offering a powerful open-source platform to simplify and automate infrastructure management including the provisioning, patching, configuration, and management of operating systems and application components across enterprise data centers, cloud environments or Virtual infrastructures like VMware.Legal Notice:Salt® and SaltStack® are registered trademarks of SaltStack Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by SaltStack, Inc.Course Structure:LecturesDemosQuizzesAssignmentCourse Contents:Introduction to SaltStackUnderstanding SaltStack FrameworkSetting up SaltStack EnvironmentSaltStack Indepth ArchitectureModules - The Basic Building BlocksAdhoc TasksSaltStack Code Creation ProcessSaltState TreeHighStateSaltStack File ServerRequisites System (Watch and Require Statements)Grains/Custom GrainsJinja TemplatesPillarsMasterless SaltAgentless SaltAll sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own SaltStack environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Course Introduction
Lecture 2 Introduction to SaltStack aka Salt
Lecture 3 Demo - Salt Documentation
Lecture 4 Github Repository Link
Lecture 5 Course Material - SaltStack for Absolute Beginners Presentations
Section 2: Understanding SaltStack Framework
Lecture 6 Core Salt Terminologies
Section 3: Setup SaltStack
Lecture 7 Pre-Requisites Salt Master
Lecture 8 Demo - Setup Server on AWS Cloud Environment (Optional)
Lecture 9 Setup Salt Master
Lecture 10 Demo - Salt Master Setup and Configuration
Lecture 11 Pre-Requisities and Setting up Salt Minions
Lecture 12 Demo - Salt Minion Setup and Configuration
Lecture 13 Salt Key Management Essentials
Lecture 14 Demo - Salt Key Management
Lecture 15 Key Auto Signing
Lecture 16 Demo - Adding New Minion using Auto Signing Method
Section 4: SaltStack Architecture
Lecture 17 Understanding SaltStack Architecture
Section 5: Modules - The Basic Building Blocks
Lecture 18 Understanding SaltStack Modules
Lecture 19 Demo - Modules Documentation
Lecture 20 Virtual Modules in SaltStack
Lecture 21 Demo - Virtual Modules
Section 6: Adhoc Tasks
Lecture 22 Adhoc requests and Targeting
Lecture 23 Demo - Targeting Minions
Lecture 24 Demo - 10 Use cases for Adhoc Requests
Section 7: SaltStack Code Creation Process
Lecture 25 Developing State Files
Lecture 26 Demo - State Modules for State Files
Lecture 27 Salt Code Creation Process
Lecture 28 Demo - First State File
Lecture 29 Demo - Complete Apache Setup
Lecture 30 Demo - YAML Overview (Optional)
Section 8: SaltState Tree and Highstate
Lecture 31 Overview of SaltState Tree
Lecture 32 Demo - Top.sls with Single State file
Lecture 33 Demo - Top.sls and Directory Structure with init.sls
Lecture 34 Demo - Top.sls with Multiple State Files inside init.sls
Section 9: SaltStack File Server and Requisites System
Lecture 35 Understanding the File Server
Lecture 36 Demo - File Server Configuration and Usage
Lecture 37 Watch and Require Statements in SaltStack
Lecture 38 Demo - Implementing Watch and Require
Section 10: Advanced SaltStack Concepts
Lecture 39 Grains in SaltStack
Lecture 40 Demo - Grains Usage
Lecture 41 Demo - Custom Grains in SaltStack
Lecture 42 Demo - Grains in State Files as Variables
Lecture 43 Jinja Templates in SaltStack
Lecture 44 Demo - Jinja Templates in State Files
Lecture 45 Overview of Pillars
Lecture 46 Demo - Pillars in Action
Lecture 47 Masterless Salt
Lecture 48 Demo - Adhoc request and State Files in Masterless Model
Lecture 49 Agentless Salt
Lecture 50 Bonus Lecture - Free Online Assessments Platform
System Administrators or System Engineers,DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers,Automation Engineers,Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers,No Scripting Knowledge


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