{"id":978,"date":"2014-05-10T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2014-05-22T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T03:46:13","slug":"introduction-to-saltstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/introduction-to-saltstack\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to SaltStack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to give an introduction to SaltStack<\/a> at the OpenWest conference<\/a> this week (Video on YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As I was setting up for the presentation, I realized I needed an HDMI cable, and there wasn’t one in the room. A conference helper found a cable at the last minute, and we started on time (thank you!).<\/p>\n

From what the audience said, many people are interested in using SaltStack<\/a>, but haven’t started yet. It’s a fantastic tool for remote execution and configuration management. The documentation is initially a bit intimidating, but it’s easier to get started than it appears — especially using one of he many online tutorials<\/a>. And there are many examples available from saltstarters.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SaltStack releases for CentOS\/RHEL have become more stable over the past 10 months, and I’m excited about it’s future. It has a vibrant development community, and they’re implementing cool new features to extend its capabilities, including:<\/p>\n

– RAET, an optional new, secure UDP communications protocol, which will easily support more than 10,000 minions. https:\/\/github.com\/saltstack\/raet
\n– Proxy minions will eventually allow the configuration of load balancers and networking equipment.<\/p>\n

And advanced features, already present, sound like they could be useful:<\/p>\n

– The orchestration framework, based around the reactor, can allow configuration when certain events are triggered. For example, Jenkin<\/a>s, upon building successfully, could send an event from the Salt minion to the master, and the Salt Master could automatically deploy the build to a test environment.
\n– Custom module, state and proxy support. In \/srv\/salt, create a _modules directory, etc. They can either override the existing module, or add new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to give an introduction to SaltStack at the OpenWest conference this week (Video on YouTube). As I was setting up for the presentation, I realized I needed an HDMI cable, and there wasn’t one in the room. A conference helper found a cable at the last minute, and we started on … <\/p>\n

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