SaltStack for the Absolute Beginners - Practical DevOps

Learn Automating regular tasks using SaltStack with lectures, hands-on demos, quizzes and hands-on coding exercises

What you'll learn
Introduction to Automation with SaltStack
Deploy and Configure Salt Master and Minions
Develop Salt code using Salt State Files
Salt State Tree and Highstate
Salt File Server and Requisites System
Insights to Concepts like Grains, Jinja Templates, Pillars, Masterless and Agentless Models

Requirements
Basic Unix/Linux Knowledge
AWS Free Tier Account (Optional)

Description
What’s in this course?This SaltStack course, designed for absolute beginners, introduces the basic fundamental blocks needed to get started with SaltStack. The course begins with an introduction to SaltStack and Salt’s key terminologies followed by real time SaltStack setup, In-depth Architecture, Salt Modules. This course also covers some of the core critical concepts such as State Files, State Tree, HighState, important Salt configuration files, Grains, Pillars, Jinja Templates, Agentless Salt, Masterless Salt and much more. Don’t worry if you are new to SaltStack, we are going to get started with the absolute basics. Each lecture in this course is accompanied by real hands-on demos.What is SaltStack?In today's complex IT landscape, managing numerous servers and ensuring consistent configurations across them can be a daunting task. This is where SaltStack steps in, offering a powerful open-source platform to simplify and automate infrastructure management including the provisioning, patching, configuration, and management of operating systems and application components across enterprise data centers, cloud environments or Virtual infrastructures like VMware.Legal Notice:Salt® and SaltStack® are registered trademarks of SaltStack Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by SaltStack, Inc.Student Testimonials:★★★★★ "Reasonably structured and presented information. I am not prepared to dive into salt management and administration. Thanks!"★★★★★ "Very easy to listen and understand the concepts. This class gives you practical and applicable lessons that can be applied to real world scenarios right away! Great class!"★★★★★ "This "Salt Stack for Beginners" course provided an excellent starting point for configuration management and orchestration tools. It offered a balanced mix of theory and practice, conceptual understanding, practical skills, and a foundation to build further knowledge."Course Structure:LecturesDemosQuizzesAssignmentsCourse Contents:Introduction to SaltStackUnderstanding SaltStack FrameworkSetting up SaltStack EnvironmentSaltStack Indepth ArchitectureModules - The Basic Building BlocksAdhoc TasksSaltStack Code Creation ProcessSaltState TreeHighStateSaltStack File ServerRequisites System (Watch and Require Statements)Grains/Custom GrainsJinja TemplatesPillarsMasterless SaltAgentless SaltAll sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own SaltStack environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!

Who this course is for:
System Administrators or System Engineers, DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers, Automation Engineers, Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers, No Scripting Knowledge