SaltStack for the Absolute Beginners – Practical DevOps

SaltStack for the Absolute Beginners – Practical DevOps, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 50 lectures, 9 quizzes, based on 64 reviews, and has 1424 subscribers.

You will learn about 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 This course is ideal for individuals who are System Administrators or System Engineers or DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers or Automation Engineers or Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers or No Scripting Knowledge It is particularly useful for System Administrators or System Engineers or DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers or Automation Engineers or Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers or No Scripting Knowledge.

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Summary

Title: SaltStack for the Absolute Beginners – Practical DevOps

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 50

Number of Quizzes: 9

Number of Published Lectures: 50

Number of Published Quizzes: 9

Number of Curriculum Items: 59

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 59

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will 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

Who Should Attend

System Administrators or System Engineers
DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers
Automation Engineers
Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers
No Scripting Knowledge

Target Audiences

System Administrators or System Engineers
DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers
Automation Engineers
Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers
No Scripting Knowledge

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:

Lectures
Demos
Quizzes
Assignments

Course Contents:

Introduction to SaltStack
Understanding SaltStack Framework
Setting up SaltStack Environment
SaltStack Indepth Architecture
Modules – The Basic Building Blocks
Adhoc Tasks
SaltStack Code Creation Process
SaltState Tree
HighState
SaltStack File Server
Requisites System (Watch and Require Statements)
Grains/Custom Grains
Jinja Templates
Pillars
Masterless Salt
Agentless Salt

All 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!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 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

Chapter 2: Understanding SaltStack Framework

Lecture 1: Core Salt Terminologies

Chapter 3: Setup SaltStack

Lecture 1: Pre-Requisites Salt Master

Lecture 2: Demo – Setup Server on AWS Cloud Environment (Optional)

Lecture 3: Setup Salt Master

Lecture 4: Demo – Salt Master Setup and Configuration

Lecture 5: Pre-Requisities and Setting up Salt Minions

Lecture 6: Demo – Salt Minion Setup and Configuration

Lecture 7: Salt Key Management Essentials

Lecture 8: Demo – Salt Key Management

Lecture 9: Key Auto Signing

Lecture 10: Demo – Adding New Minion using Auto Signing Method

Chapter 4: SaltStack Architecture

Lecture 1: Understanding SaltStack Architecture

Chapter 5: Modules – The Basic Building Blocks

Lecture 1: Understanding SaltStack Modules

Lecture 2: Demo – Modules Documentation

Lecture 3: Virtual Modules in SaltStack

Lecture 4: Demo – Virtual Modules

Chapter 6: Adhoc Tasks

Lecture 1: Adhoc requests and Targeting

Lecture 2: Demo – Targeting Minions

Lecture 3: Demo – 10 Use cases for Adhoc Requests

Chapter 7: SaltStack Code Creation Process

Lecture 1: Developing State Files

Lecture 2: Demo – State Modules for State Files

Lecture 3: Salt Code Creation Process

Lecture 4: Demo – First State File

Lecture 5: Demo – Complete Apache Setup

Lecture 6: Demo – YAML Overview (Optional)

Chapter 8: SaltState Tree and Highstate

Lecture 1: Overview of SaltState Tree

Lecture 2: Demo – Top.sls with Single State file

Lecture 3: Demo – Top.sls and Directory Structure with init.sls

Lecture 4: Demo – Top.sls with Multiple State Files inside init.sls

Chapter 9: SaltStack File Server and Requisites System

Lecture 1: Understanding the File Server

Lecture 2: Demo – File Server Configuration and Usage

Lecture 3: Watch and Require Statements in SaltStack

Lecture 4: Demo – Implementing Watch and Require

Chapter 10: Advanced SaltStack Concepts

Lecture 1: Grains in SaltStack

Lecture 2: Demo – Grains Usage

Lecture 3: Demo – Custom Grains in SaltStack

Lecture 4: Demo – Grains in State Files as Variables

Lecture 5: Jinja Templates in SaltStack

Lecture 6: Demo – Jinja Templates in State Files

Lecture 7: Overview of Pillars

Lecture 8: Demo – Pillars in Action

Lecture 9: Masterless Salt

Lecture 10: Demo – Adhoc request and State Files in Masterless Model

Lecture 11: Agentless Salt

Lecture 12: Bonus Lecture – Free Online Assessments Platform

Instructors

Yogesh Raheja
DevOps, Automation and Cloud Coach and Consultant
Thinknyx Technologies
Online Training Partner
Shruti Bhardwaj
DevOps, Automation and Cloud Coach

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3 stars: 7 votes
4 stars: 20 votes
5 stars: 36 votes

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