Salt Links from ChicagoLUG meeting, 16 Nov. 2013

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Location for these links: http://goo.gl/VDePDY

My Info

• Twitter, Github, and IRC: terminalmage
• Google+: https://plus.google.com/+ErikJohnson

Community

• IRC (general discussion): #salt on irc.freenode.net
• IRC (development discussion): #salt-devel on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-users

Helpful Links for Further Reading

Docs Home: http://docs.saltstack.com/

• Installation

• FAQ

• Salt Walkthrough

• Grains - Static information about a Minion

• Pillar - User-defined variables

• Compound Matching - Use complex expressions and combinations of Grains, Pillar, Minion ID globs, etc. to target more granularly

• States Introduction

• States Tutorial - 4 parts, follow link at bottom of page to proceed to part 2, etc.

• YAML Idiosyncrasies - Common pitfalls to avoid when writing SLS files

• Salt Cloud - Create/destroy VMs on cloud providers (Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.)

• The Salt Mine - Store output from functions on the master so that other minions can access it

• Reactor System and Event System

• Scheduler

• Salt SSH - Run Salt over SSH instead of ZeroMQ, without a Minion daemon

• Halite - Salt web GUI