Salt at a glance¶
Learn about the various parts of Salt in five minute increments (or less).
- What is Salt?: Overview | Community
- The basics:
Installation
| Configuration
|
Watch the screencast - Remote execution: Modules
- State management: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Salt in depth¶
While using and setting up Salt is a simple task, the capabilities of Salt run much deeper. Gaining a better understanding of how Salt works will allow you to get much more out of Salt.
- Remote execution: Writing modules | full list of modules
- System info & detection: Grains
- Displaying or storing responses: Writing returners | full list of returners
- State enforcement: States | Highstate data structure | full list of states
- Renderers: Renderers | full list of renderers
- Transferring & syncing files: File Server
- Network topology: Salt Syndic | Peer Communication
- Configuration: Full list of minion settings | Full list of master settings
- Using Salt: From the command-line | Through the Python API
Screencasts and presentations
- Thomas S. Hatch was interviewed on episode 191 of FLOSS Weekly.
- Presentation at the Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG) in May 2011 video | slides (PDF)