The origin of the DevOps movement
The need for industrialization for operations Overview
of tools
Positioning of SaltStack in the current landscape

Origin of the project
Architecture: masters and servants (master / minions)
Dependencies, and basic configuration
The commands integrated in salt

Practical workshop: install the master and the servants on the nodes, test the controls

Presentation of SLS and YAML
files Organization of files: main file (top file), dependencies and inclusions
Basic resources and modules (user, service, pkg, etc.)
Execution of reports on servants

Practical workshop: writing the first Salt reports, deploying a Web server and a personalized page on « minions »

Discover grains, configure and add variables
Manipulate grains in reports to refine the configuration
Using models in reports with Jinja
Grains and models for files
Store information with Pillar

Practical workshop: manipulate basic grains, add data with Pillar, create configuration files and model reports

Using global or regular expressions
Via grains
Using user variables stored in Pillar
Other methods: by IP, compound expression,
Orchestration groups , job execution

Hands-on Workshop: Using Custom Grains and Pillar to Deploy Front End and Support Servers with Salt, Execute Commands Sequentially