Saltstack Fundamentals

Course description:

This course is intended for students just starting out with Salt. The Saltstack Training is designed to get you up and running with the basics of Salt quickly and to lay a foundation for building upon. Some key Salt features and modules will be explained while you practice hands-on the setup, configuration, provisioning, optimizing and troubleshooting of a collection of servers in our virtual lab environment.

Target audience:

• DevOps engineers
• Linux system administrators
• Infrastructure automation engineers
• Systems design engineers

Prerequisites for Saltstack Fundamentals:

Basic Linux administration skills (user management, working with the command line, file permissions, etc.)

Nice to have:

A basic knowledge of YAML will help with understanding Salt file structure – however, this is not mandatory (the basics of YAML will be presented during the training).

Course module structure

Module 1: Introduction to Salt
– The goal of SaltStack
– A Brief History
– Architectural Overview
– Salt states
– Grains
– Pillar
Hands on labs

Module 2: Installing Salt
– Installation Salt on Linux Distribution
– Salt-minion
– Salt-master
Hands on labs

Module 3: Basic Commands
– Anatomy of a salt command
– The basic commands: salt, salt-key, salt-run and salt-call
– Key Management
– Remote Execution Details
Hands on labs

Module 4: YAML Overview
– Literals, scalars
– Sequences, mappings
– Examples
Hands on labs

Module 5: Execution Modules
– Manage Packages
– Manage Users
– Access different Salt Utilities
– Using Shell to execute commands
Hands on labs

Module 6: Configuration Management
– Salt states
– State File
– Highstate
– Top File
– State Ordering
Hands on labs

Module 7: Minion Data
– Obtaining System Information with Grains
– Basic Grain Operations
– Setting Grains
– Targeting with Grains
– Pillars
– Querying Pillar Data
– Using External Pillars to query other sources
– Render
– Exercises and examples
Hands on labs

Module 8: Templating
– Jinja2 introduction
– Templating with Jinja2 in Salt
Hands on labs

Module 9: Extending Salt
– Writing execution modules
– Extending Salt configuration
– Wrapping states around execution modules
– Rendering data
– Handling return data
– Scripting with runners
– Adding external file servers
– Extending the master
– Monitoring with Salt
Hands on labs

Module 10: Advanced SaltStack features
– Environments
– Orchestration
– Integration with Docker
Hands on labs

Module 11: SaltStack Best Practices
– Structuring States and Formulas
– Structuring Pillar Files
– Variable Flexibility
– Storing Secure Data
Hands on labs

Note:

Every student has assigned to him his own virtual lab environment setup.

Additional details:

To attend this course, you need to have:
• PC/Laptop with internet access
• Updated web browser

We have delivered live-virtual courses across 3 continents from the safety of our laptops and whiteboards, as we are specialized in delivering live virtual courses and we take great pride in saying that our team of trainers are, first of all, engineers or developers. This enable us to have up to 70% of the time spent on doing hands-on practice and sharing our combined knowledge and experience.

Price On-Demand