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Saltstack For DevOps

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Extremely fast and simple IT automation and configuration management.

Through this book you will learn how to use one of the most powerful System Administrators and DevOps tools

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This book is a fruit of long hours of work and self-learning. Through this book, it's your turn to discover Saltstack, I will be your guide.

The 10 most important tips you’ll learn:

1. Configuration Management And Data Center Automation.

2. Advanced installation of SaltStack with a practical installation case.

3. Configuration and troubleshooting.

4. SaltStack concepts like master, minion, syndic, key management, runners, configurations, . states and top file, event-based execution, formulas.

5. Using SaltStack to provision and control a Vagrant environment.

6. Using SaltStack with a Docker container and monitoring Docker host system.

7. Real world examples: installation and configuration of Apache web server, creating you own private storage cloud (SaltStack + Vagrant + OwnCloud), monitoring minions, scheduling monitoring tasks, automating wordpress / LAMP installation and configuration, using Vagrant and Docker..etc

8. A practical cheat sheet.

9. SaltStack best practices.

10. Getting help and contributing to SaltStack community.

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To whom is this book addressed ?

To developers, system administrators and anyone faced to work in one of these environments in collaboration with the other or simply in an environment that requires knowledge in development and system administration.

Does this book includes real cases and examples ?
Through this book, you will learn how to install configure and use Saltstack. At the end, you will go through a chapter where some good examples and practical use cases are explained..

Is it easy to learn SaltStack ?
This book contains technical explanations and shows in each case an example of a command or a configuration to follow, this will ensure that you have a good understanding of each part before moving to the next one.

Why I wrote this book ?
I tried SaltStack first time when I saw my team taking more than 3 days to configure hosted platforms at each deployment ! After using SaltStack, the same procedure was taking less than 1/2 hour..

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170 pages

First published January 1, 2015

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Aymen El Amri

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