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Using Salt Open for Remote Execution
This course will teach you to configure Linux systems using remote execution commands from the CLI and the Web API.
Intermediate
- Course
Using Salt Open for Remote Execution
This course will teach you to configure Linux systems using remote execution commands from the CLI and the Web API.
Intermediate
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What you'll learn
Often your test systems do not replicate the exact running environment of Production. In this course, Using Salt Open for Remote Execution, you’ll learn to replicate configuration settings across all of your systems. First, you’ll explore remote executions commands to deploy settings. Next, you’ll discover how to target systems using grains or pillar data. Finally, you’ll learn how to use reactors to implement desired states across your estate using the Salt API. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Configuration Management needed to build and replicate test and production environments .
Using Salt Open for Remote Execution
Intermediate
Table of contents
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Remote Execution Within Salt | 3m 7s
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Setting up Labs | 6m 26s
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Targeting Minions in Salt | 6m 21s
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Targeting Using Grains and Using Modules | 5m 16s
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Creating Custom Grains | 3m 41s
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Creating Cron Entries Using Salt | 3m 27s
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Understanding Pillar of Salts | 3m 8s
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Working with Pillar Data | 6m 15s
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Summary and What's Next | 3m 17s
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).