What you'll learn

Once you’ve taken your first steps to set up and use Salt, there are some key Salt master skills that will help to maximise your effectiveness. In this course, Mastering the Salt Master, you’ll learn how to get the most from this central part of your deployment. First, you’ll explore execution on the master, using Salt runners. Next, you’ll discover how to configure the master for collaborative working and difficult edge cases. Finally, you’ll learn how to share data between minions, via the master hosted Salt mine. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the Salt master needed to configure and operate Salt deployments of intermediate complexity.