Foundations Of Salt Open Project

Secure Salty Automation Platform

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!