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Extending Salt Open with Plugins

This course will teach you to write and deploy custom Python modules as Salt plugins.

Intermediate
1h 16m
(2)

Created by Andrew Mallett

Last Updated Mar 20, 2024

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Extending Salt Open with Plugins

This course will teach you to write and deploy custom Python modules as Salt plugins.

Intermediate
1h 16m
(2)

Created by Andrew Mallett

Last Updated Mar 20, 2024

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It is impossible for a vendor to provide everything you need for your environment. This is why Salt is an extensible system where you can create your own plugins. In this course, Extending Salt Open with Plugins, you’ll learn to develop simple Python scripts to deploy as Salt Plugins. First, you’ll explore the structure of existing plugins. Next, you’ll discover how the Beacon plugin system operates to monitor Minions. Finally, you’ll learn how to write and deploy your own custom plugins as Python modules. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the Salt Plugin system needed to both understand existing plugins and extend Salt with your own.

Extending Salt Open with Plugins
Intermediate
1h 16m
(2)
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Andrew Mallett
88 courses 4.6 author rating 4193 ratings

Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).

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