Salt - Advanced Automated Infrastructure Management (SALT2)

Virtualization, Management

This course teaches advanced infrastructure automation with a focus on event-driven reactions, using the Salt Bus to detect and act on system states, and integrating Salt-Cloud drivers for rapid machine provisioning, orchestration and control.

The course covers Beacon-based monitoring of servers and apps, writing Reactor formulas for automated responses, running long-lived Engines, and configuring multi-master setups for high availability and resilient Salt environments.

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The course:

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  • Salt Bus Events:
    1. Why use the Salt Bus event system
    2. Which services can be controlled via Bus events
    3. What data can be collected
  • Salt-Cloud:
    1. Introduction to drivers
    2. Creating maps and profiles for rapid machine creation
    3. Removing or decommissioning machines from the environment
  • Beacon:
    1. Monitoring server health
    2. Monitoring applications
  • Reactor:
    1. Why use Reactor
    2. Writing Reactor formulas to react to server events
  • Engines:
    1. Running long-lived external processes used by Salt
  • Multi-master:
    1. Setting up a multi-master Salt environment for high stability
Assumed knowledge:
Attendees should have prior Salt experience or have completed the SALT1 course.
Recommended previous course:
Salt — Automated Infrastructure Management (SALT1)
Schedule:
2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )
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