awesome-saltstack

Salt Project (Salt Open Source) website

vRealize Automation SaltStack Config website at VMware (new name for commercial SaltStack product)

GitHub repo

Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration

Salt Project's eventual new home

Official documentation

Official walkthrough

These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running

Official training

This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt

Salt Module Contributions

Salt modules developed by the community

Extensive blogpost with lots of in-depth information

SaltStack uncovered - Configuration management has been a big leap forward for System Engineers

Walkthrough on how to use Salt Cloud Map Files to deploy application servers and an Nginx reverse proxy

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A Linux Journal "Getting started" from 2013

Combine the simplicity of Salt with DigitalOcean's snapshot and image feature

Getting started with SaltStack and Vagrant

Get a barebones salt-api proof of concept up and running

Simple setup and play around on the command line

Will teach you some of default functions in a quick way

Learning SaltStack by setting up a salt-workspace

Learn how to setup a structured SaltStack workspace

Introduction to SaltStack

A two day course designed to quickly introduce System Administrators and Application Developers on how to start using Saltstack

Start to learn the basics of SaltStack by setting it up in Docker

Part of the larger "Learn SaltStack"-tutorial at Tutorials Point

How to switch SaltStack from Python2 to Python3

A good collection of Salt guides and tutorials created and managed by Linode

valentin2105/Kubernetes-Saltstack

Saltstack recipe to deploy Kubernetes cluster from scratch

madflojo/masterless-salt-base

Quickly bootstrap a generic(ish) Ubuntu server. One that is ready to host Docker containers

This plugin sends a SaltStack API message as a build step

Rundeck

Generate Rundeck node resources from the Salt Mine

By Craig Sebenik, Thomas Hatch

By Mircea Ulinic and Seth House (an ebook sponsored by Cloudflare)

By Aymen El Amri

By Ben Hosmer

By Colton Myers

By Joseph Hall

By Joseph Hall

By Anirban Saha

SaltStack's official YouTube channel

Salt Project's official Twitch channel

PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers

SaltStack PDX - June 23, 2015 - Jason Denning

Southern California Linux Expo - January 23, 2016 - David Boucha

Devops Chicago - March 2, 2016 - Nathan Brooks

A 7-part video crash course on SaltStack for FreeBSD

There were more than 60 talks delivered at SaltConf15 and we recorded all of them

Video recordings of SaltConf16 presentations

Video recordings of SaltConf17 presentations delivered by SaltStack customers and partners

Video recordings of SaltConf18 presentations

Video recordings of SaltConf19 presentations

Video recordings of SaltConf20 presentations

SaltGUI

A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure

A Flask-based lightweight Salt web console

Molten

Molten is a WebUI for the REST API exposed by Saltstack

A CLI Frontend to the salt-api systems

salt-sproxy

Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of devices and applications, without running (Proxy) Minions

salt-lint

Checks Salt state files (SLS) for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved

A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt

ISalt

IPython-based command shell for interactive Salt programming

By Peter Baumgartner

By Aurelien Geron

By Boris Feld

By Justin Carmony

Video and presentation (slides & PDF) by Carson Anderson

How-to use SaltStack on a virtual cloud server based on Debian or Ubuntu

First hand experiences from a Chef user

A good getting started guide for both Salt master and minions

How to use the SaltStack's core

On secure encryption/decryption of pillar data

Encrypting your pillar data can be done with GPG

How to manage legacy devices that are not able to install software natively on themselves

How to use Salt in a way similar to Ansible

Use class inheritance to define nodes roles and avoid duplication

Covers plugins for different editors when writing Salt states

Writing a custom Salt Grain, and why you might want to

Automate the detection and first action to correct errors in your infrastructure

Make it easy to test salt states or formulas independently of a production environment

Using Salt custom modules to manage sudo access for users

Using a centralized User YAML file that contains all users' data

Provisioning Virtual System using Masterless Salt Stack

Local Development with Vagrant using external Salt formulas

How to deploy SaltStack, Consul and the Prometheus Node Exporter on Linux

Up and running in 60 minutes

An excellent overview and introduction of Salt

How to easily parse remote command output in SaltStack, using

Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in

IRC about Salt on Libera Chat

Official SaltStack Slack Community ( )

SaltStack subreddit

#saltstack channel on Network To Code Slack ( )

#saltstack channel on VMware {code} Community Slack ( )

Official Salt Project Twitter account

Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups

Worldwide Meetup groups

Annual user conference for SaltStack customers, users, partners, developers and community members

Official Salt Project Facebook account

A central collection of formula repositories for SaltStack

A community developed SaltStack formulas ecosystem

An overview on writing SaltStack formulas

In-depth blogpost about Salt Formulas

SaltStack Cheat Sheet Plus

By Facu de la Cruz

List of common Salt commands

SaltStack Wiki

Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki

Wikipedia (English)

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Walkthrough on automated provisioning of DigitalOcean Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04

SaltStack installation walkthrough for Ubuntu 14.04

Let's see how we can automate the spin-up of a cluster using SaltStack