A step-by-step recipe based approach to infrastructure automation and configuration. The topics are explained sequentially as cookbook recipes consisting of practical tasks followed by hands-on configuration of the same with the configuration files and command line outputs of the module executions.
Chapter 1: Salt Architecture and Components
Chapter 2: Writing Advanced Salt Configurations
Chapter 3: Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt
Chapter 4: General Administration Tasks
Chapter 5: Advanced Administration Tasks
Chapter 6: Managing Application Servers
Chapter 7: Managing Databases
Chapter 8: Configuring Salt Cloud
Chapter 9: Managing Amazon Web Services
Chapter 10: Salt Event and Reactor System
Chapter 11: Troubleshooting
