awesome-saltproject
github.com/saltstack/awesome-saltproject ↗A collaborative curated list of awesome Salt Project resources, tutorials and other salted stuff (originally maintained by the since-archived repo https://github.com/hbokh/awesome-saltstack)
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Tutorials
- About SaltStack
Extensive blogpost with lots of in-depth information. :gem:
- A dive into SaltStack
SaltStack uncovered - Configuration management has been a big leap forward for System Engineers.
- An Introduction to SaltStack Terminology and Concepts
Part 1 of 6 in the series
- Create an army of Salt minions on DigitalOcean
Combine the simplicity of Salt with DigitalOcean's snapshot and image feature.
- Getting Started with SaltStack - the Other Configuration Management System Built with Python
A Linux Journal "Getting started" from 2013.
- How To Use Salt Cloud Map Files to Deploy App Servers and an Nginx Reverse Proxy
Walkthrough on how to use Salt Cloud Map Files to deploy application servers and an Nginx reverse proxy.
Tools
- Alcali
A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt.
- ISalt
IPython-based command shell for interactive Salt programming.
- Molten
Molten is a WebUI for the REST API exposed by Saltstack.
- salt-exporter
Salt Prometheus exporter working out of the box without any configuration on Salt side, comes with an event watcher TUI.
- SaltGUI
A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure.
- salt-lint
Checks Salt state files (SLS) for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.
Presentations
- An introduction to infrastructure management with SaltStack
By Aurelien Geron.
- Getting Started with SaltStack
By Peter Baumgartner.
- Intro to SaltStack
By Justin Carmony.
- salt-deconstructed
Video and presentation (slides & PDF) by Carson Anderson.
- Saltpad: A SaltStack Web GUI
By Boris Feld.
Attic
- Automated Provisioning of DigitalOcean Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04
Walkthrough on automated provisioning of DigitalOcean Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04.
- Docker Swarm 1.12 Cluster Orchestration with SaltStack
Let's see how we can automate the spin-up of a cluster using SaltStack.
- How To Create Your First Salt Formula
Part 2 in the series
- How To Install and Configure Salt Master and Minion Servers on Ubuntu 14.04
SaltStack installation walkthrough for Ubuntu 14.04.
- How To Install Salt on Ubuntu 12.04
Part 1 of 2 in the series
Videos
- Automation and Orchestration with SaltStack and Twilio
Devops Chicago - March 2, 2016 - Nathan Brooks.
- Beyond Configuration Management with SaltStack for Event-Driven Infrastructure
Southern California Linux Expo - January 23, 2016 - David Boucha.
- Managing Your Infrastructure with SaltStack
PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers.
- SaltConf15 - YouTube
There were more than 60 talks delivered at SaltConf15 and we recorded all of them.
- SaltConf16 - YouTube
Video recordings of SaltConf16 presentations.
- SaltConf17 - YouTube
Video recordings of SaltConf17 presentations delivered by SaltStack customers and partners.
Blogposts and opinions
- Building Self-Healing Applications
Automate the detection and first action to correct errors in your infrastructure.
- Complex User management with Saltstack (using Py! renderer)
Using a centralized User YAML file that contains all users' data.
- Getting started with SaltStack by example: Automatically Installing nginx
A good getting started guide for both Salt master and minions.
- Network Automation at Scale
Up and running in 60 minutes.
- One week of Salt: frustrations and reflections
First hand experiences from a Chef user.
- Parsing Command Output in Saltstack with JC
How to easily parse remote command output in SaltStack, using
Community
- Facebook
Official Salt Project Facebook account.
- Instagram
Official Salt Project Instagram account.
- Mailing list: salt-announce
Salt-announce mailinglist on Google Groups.
- Mailing list: salt-users
Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups.
- Salt Project Community Discord Server
Official Salt Project Community Discord Server (Replaces Official SaltStack Slack Community)
- SaltStack on Reddit
SaltStack subreddit.
Official Resources
- GitHub repo
Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration.
- Salt Project Core Module Index (Refernce Documentation)
Official index of built-in Salt modules.
- Salt Project Install Guide
These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting Salt Project up and running.
- Salt Project Reference Documentation Landing
Official home page of reference documentation.
- Salt Project Repository: GENERICSalt Project Package Repositories
Where Salt Windows, macOS, etc. (non-rpm, non-deb) packages are officially stored and distributed.
- Salt Project Repository: Linux (DEB)Salt Project Package Repositories
Where Salt
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