Learn SALTSTACK with Real Code Examples

Install and configure Nginx on multiple servers

Provision AWS EC2 instances with Salt Cloud

Enforce security policies on Linux hosts

Automate backup workflows using reactors

Deploy containerized applications with orchestration

Verify Salt Master and Minion communication

Check minion keys and accept with salt-key

Debug SLS syntax errors

Inspect log files for failures

Validate pillar and state application order

Use test=True to preview state changes

Validate SLS syntax with salt-call --local state.show_sls

Test pillar values with pillar.items

Run unit tests using salt-testing

Monitor master logs during deployments

Salt Master / Minion architecture

Salt SSH for agentless management

Cloud provisioning with Salt Cloud

CI/CD pipeline automation

Event-driven automation with Reactor

Salt Master

Salt Minion

Salt SSH

Salt Cloud

Salt Reactor

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack

Docker and Kubernetes

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI

Monitoring tools: Prometheus, ELK

Secrets management: HashiCorp Vault

Use modular SLS states and Jinja templating

Leverage pillars for environment-specific values

Test changes with test=True

Monitor event bus for automation triggers

Document top.sls and reactor workflows

Managing large-scale event-driven automation

Debugging distributed state application

Ensuring security of master/minion keys

Integrating with multiple cloud providers

Maintaining consistent configuration across fleets