Udemy – Foundations Of Salt Open Project

What you'll learn
What is Salt Open and how is it used
Installing and Configuring Salt Open
Salt, Salt-Call, Salt-Run, Oh My!
Creating Basic Salt States
Establish Dependency Workflows Using Requisites and Declarations
Templating Salt States with Jinja
Salty Pillars
Salty Orchestration
Automating workflows with Reactors and Beacons
Agentless Salt
Cache and Backend Integrations
Deployment and Provisioning Infrastructure with Salt Cloud
Requirements
Be able to navigate within a Linux Operating System
Experience with virtualization (e.g. Virtualbox, VM Workstation, etc.)
Description
In today's world, companies have the need to manage infrastructure environments from a few hundred systems to well over hundreds of thousands of systems. This requires the ability to automate tasks relating to the deployment, configuration, and security of the applications and systems they manage in an efficient and secure manner. Enter Salt...The Salt Open Project is an open-source project that allows you to automate workflows for security, compliance, vulnerability assessments and remediations, as well as configuration and patch management initiatives. In this course you will learn what Salt Open is; install and configure it's component parts; find, navigate and understand the Salt documentation; create Salty content for specific business use cases (taken from actual experience).We will dig into higher level topics of automating workflows, securing your data at rest and in transit, integrating with external tools to take advantage of existing economies of scale within your organization, and the deployment and management of infrastructure within your environment. Whether you are new to Salt or looking to hone or expand your Salty skills, this course contains gems for each of you.Come see how Salt can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of you and your IT teams. Let's get Salty Forever!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Course Introduction
Section 2: Crawling with Salt
Lecture 2 Salt Overview
Lecture 3 Salt Architecture
Lecture 4 Installing and Configuring Salt
Lecture 5 Salt Documentation
Lecture 6 Salt, Salt-call, Salt-Run, Oh My!
Lecture 7 Targeting Criteria
Lecture 8 Grains
Section 3: Walking with Salt
Lecture 9 Creating Salt States - Part 1
Lecture 10 Creating Salt States - Part 2
Lecture 11 Requisites and Declarations
Lecture 12 Templating Salt with Jinja
Lecture 13 Salty Pillar Data
Section 4: Running with Salt
Lecture 14 Salty Orchestration
Lecture 15 Automating workflows with Reactors and Beacons
Lecture 16 Agentless Salt (salt-ssh)
Lecture 17 File Server Backends and Job Cache
Lecture 18 Introduction to Deploying Infrastructure with Salt-Cloud
ITOps - who have a need to automate configuration management, patch management, and deploy infrastructure using the Salt Open Project.,DevOps - who need to deploy applications in an automated fashion,SecOps - who need to adhere to compliance standards,Anyone who is interested in learning how Salt Open can help improve efficiencies in infrastructure security and management

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