awesome-saltstack
🧂 A collaborative curated list of awesome SaltStack resources, tutorials and other salted stuff.
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Awesome SaltStack / Official resources | |||
| Salt Project site | Salt Project (Salt Open Source) website | ||
| vRealize Automation SaltStack Config | vRealize Automation SaltStack Config website at VMware (new name for commercial SaltStack product) | ||
| GitHub repo | 14,245 | about 1 year ago | Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration |
| GitLab repo | Salt Project's eventual new home | ||
| SaltStack Documentation | Official documentation | ||
| Salt in 10 minutes | Official walkthrough | ||
| SaltStack Get Started | These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running | ||
| Training and certification | Official training | ||
| Jinja2 documentation | This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt | ||
| Salt Module Contributions | 168 | almost 5 years ago | Salt modules developed by the community |
Awesome SaltStack / Tutorials | |||
| About SaltStack | Extensive blogpost with lots of in-depth information | ||
| A dive into SaltStack | SaltStack uncovered - Configuration management has been a big leap forward for System Engineers | ||
| How To Use Salt Cloud Map Files to Deploy App Servers and an Nginx Reverse Proxy | Walkthrough on how to use Salt Cloud Map Files to deploy application servers and an Nginx reverse proxy | ||
| An Introduction to SaltStack Terminology and Concepts | Part 1 of 6 in the series | ||
| SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master | Part 2 of 6 in the series | ||
| SaltStack Infrastructure: Configuring Salt-Cloud to Spin Up DigitalOcean Resources | Part 3 of 6 in the series | ||
| SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for Nginx Web Servers | Part 4 of 6 in the series | ||
| SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for HAProxy Load Balancers | Part 5 of 6 in the series | ||
| SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for MySQL Database Servers | Part 6 in the series | ||
| Getting Started with SaltStack - the Other Configuration Management System Built with Python | A Linux Journal "Getting started" from 2013 | ||
| Create an army of Salt minions on DigitalOcean | Combine the simplicity of Salt with DigitalOcean's snapshot and image feature | ||
| Vagrant & SaltStack Quickstart Tutorial | Getting started with SaltStack and Vagrant | ||
| Salt-API, A Crash Course | Get a barebones salt-api proof of concept up and running | ||
| Revised Getting Started with SaltStack - Part 1 | Simple setup and play around on the command line | ||
| SaltStack Examples | Will teach you some of default functions in a quick way | ||
| Getting Started with Saltstack and salt-workspace | Learning SaltStack by setting up a salt-workspace | ||
| Getting started with Salt Structure | Learn how to setup a structured SaltStack workspace | ||
| Introduction to SaltStack | 19 | over 7 years ago | A two day course designed to quickly introduce System Administrators and Application Developers on how to start using Saltstack |
| The Simplest Way to Learn SaltStack | Start to learn the basics of SaltStack by setting it up in Docker | ||
| SaltStack - Quick Guide | Part of the larger "Learn SaltStack"-tutorial at Tutorials Point | ||
| Upgrading Salt to Python 3 | How to switch SaltStack from Python2 to Python3 | ||
| Salt Guides and Tutorials, by Linode | A good collection of Salt guides and tutorials created and managed by Linode | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Code | |||
| valentin2105/Kubernetes-Saltstack | 205 | about 2 years ago | Saltstack recipe to deploy Kubernetes cluster from scratch |
| madflojo/masterless-salt-base | 27 | almost 8 years ago | Quickly bootstrap a generic(ish) Ubuntu server. One that is ready to host Docker containers |
Awesome SaltStack / Integrations | |||
| Jenkins Salt API Plugin | This plugin sends a SaltStack API message as a build step | ||
| Rundeck | 8 | over 1 year ago | Generate Rundeck node resources from the Salt Mine |
Awesome SaltStack / Books | |||
| O'Reilly - Salt Essentials | By Craig Sebenik, Thomas Hatch | ||
| O'Reilly - Network Automation at Scale | By Mircea Ulinic and Seth House (an ebook sponsored by Cloudflare) | ||
| Leanpub - SaltStack For DevOps | By Aymen El Amri | ||
| Leanpub - Getting Started with SaltStack | By Ben Hosmer | ||
| Packt - Learning SaltStack, 2nd ed. | By Colton Myers | ||
| Packt - Mastering SaltStack, 2nd ed. | By Joseph Hall | ||
| Packt - Extending SaltStack | By Joseph Hall | ||
| Packt - Salt Cookbook | By Anirban Saha | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Videos | |||
| SaltStack | SaltStack's official YouTube channel | ||
| Salt Project on Twitch | Salt Project's official Twitch channel | ||
| Managing Your Infrastructure with SaltStack | PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers | ||
| Testing Salt States with Docker | SaltStack PDX - June 23, 2015 - Jason Denning | ||
| Beyond Configuration Management with SaltStack for Event-Driven Infrastructure | Southern California Linux Expo - January 23, 2016 - David Boucha | ||
| Automation and Orchestration with SaltStack and Twilio | Devops Chicago - March 2, 2016 - Nathan Brooks | ||
| SaltStack for FreeBSD | A 7-part video crash course on SaltStack for FreeBSD | ||
| SaltConf15 - YouTube | There were more than 60 talks delivered at SaltConf15 and we recorded all of them | ||
| SaltConf16 - YouTube | Video recordings of SaltConf16 presentations | ||
| SaltConf17 - YouTube | Video recordings of SaltConf17 presentations delivered by SaltStack customers and partners | ||
| SaltConf18 - YouTube | Video recordings of SaltConf18 presentations | ||
| SaltConf19 - YouTube | Video recordings of SaltConf19 presentations | ||
| SaltConf20 - YouTube | Video recordings of SaltConf20 presentations | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Tools | |||
| SaltGUI | 530 | 11 months ago | A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure |
| Silica | A Flask-based lightweight Salt web console | ||
| Molten | 208 | almost 3 years ago | Molten is a WebUI for the REST API exposed by Saltstack |
| salt-pepper | A CLI Frontend to the salt-api systems | ||
| salt-sproxy | 117 | over 1 year ago | Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of devices and applications, without running (Proxy) Minions |
| salt-lint | 154 | about 1 year ago | Checks Salt state files (SLS) for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved |
| Alcali | A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt | ||
| ISalt | 67 | over 1 year ago | IPython-based command shell for interactive Salt programming |
Awesome SaltStack / Presentations | |||
| Getting Started with SaltStack | By Peter Baumgartner | ||
| An introduction to infrastructure management with SaltStack | By Aurelien Geron | ||
| Saltpad: A SaltStack Web GUI | By Boris Feld | ||
| Intro to SaltStack | By Justin Carmony | ||
| salt-deconstructed | Video and presentation (slides & PDF) by Carson Anderson | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Blogposts and opinions | |||
| Docker with SaltStack | How-to use SaltStack on a virtual cloud server based on Debian or Ubuntu | ||
| One week of Salt: frustrations and reflections | First hand experiences from a Chef user | ||
| Getting started with SaltStack by example: Automatically Installing nginx | A good getting started guide for both Salt master and minions | ||
| SaltStack: Manage entries in unmanaged files with File Blockreplace | How to use the SaltStack's core | ||
| SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG | On secure encryption/decryption of pillar data | ||
| Secure Pillar in SaltStack with GPG | Encrypting your pillar data can be done with GPG | ||
| Network-Automation with Salt, NAPALM and Kubernetes | How to manage legacy devices that are not able to install software natively on themselves | ||
| Using Salt like Ansible | How to use Salt in a way similar to Ansible | ||
| Using Salt with reclass | Use class inheritance to define nodes roles and avoid duplication | ||
| Text editor plugins for Salt states and YAML/Jinja | Covers plugins for different editors when writing Salt states | ||
| Writing a custom Salt Grain | Writing a custom Salt Grain, and why you might want to | ||
| Building Self-Healing Applications | Automate the detection and first action to correct errors in your infrastructure | ||
| Testing your salt states with kitchen-salt | Make it easy to test salt states or formulas independently of a production environment | ||
| Salt Sudo | Using Salt custom modules to manage sudo access for users | ||
| Complex User management with Saltstack (using Py! renderer) | Using a centralized User YAML file that contains all users' data | ||
| Vagrant Provisioning with SaltStack | Provisioning Virtual System using Masterless Salt Stack | ||
| Salt DevKit with External Formulas | Local Development with Vagrant using external Salt formulas | ||
| Prometheus - Auto-deploying Consul and Exporters using Saltstack | How to deploy SaltStack, Consul and the Prometheus Node Exporter on Linux | ||
| Network Automation at Scale | Up and running in 60 minutes | ||
| SaltStack Overview | An excellent overview and introduction of Salt | ||
| Parsing Command Output in Saltstack with JC | How to easily parse remote command output in SaltStack, using | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Discussions | |||
| Reddit: Vagrat, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer.. Something | Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Community | |||
| Salt IRC chat | IRC about Salt on Libera Chat | ||
| SaltStack Community Slack | Official SaltStack Slack Community ( ) | ||
| SaltStack on Reddit | SaltStack subreddit | ||
| #saltstack on Network to Code Slack | #saltstack channel on Network To Code Slack ( ) | ||
| #saltstack on VMware {code} Community Slack | #saltstack channel on VMware {code} Community Slack ( ) | ||
| Twitter feed | Official Salt Project Twitter account | ||
| Mailing list | Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups | ||
| SaltStack Meetups | Worldwide Meetup groups | ||
| SaltConf | Annual user conference for SaltStack customers, users, partners, developers and community members | ||
| Official Salt Project Facebook account | |||
Awesome SaltStack / Formulas | |||
| SaltStack Formulas | A central collection of formula repositories for SaltStack | ||
| Salt Formulas | A community developed SaltStack formulas ecosystem | ||
| Writing SaltStack formulas | An overview on writing SaltStack formulas | ||
| Salt Formulas | In-depth blogpost about Salt Formulas | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Cheat sheets | |||
| SaltStack Cheat Sheet Plus | 35 | about 5 years ago | By Facu de la Cruz |
| Salt Commands cheat sheet | List of common Salt commands | ||
| SaltStack Wiki | 14,245 | about 1 year ago | Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki |
Awesome SaltStack / Uncategorized | |||
| Salt (software) | Wikipedia (English) | ||
Awesome SaltStack / Attic | |||
| How To Install Salt on Ubuntu 12.04 | Part 1 of 2 in the series | ||
| How To Create Your First Salt Formula | Part 2 in the series | ||
| Automated Provisioning of DigitalOcean Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04 | Walkthrough on automated provisioning of DigitalOcean Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04 | ||
| How To Install and Configure Salt Master and Minion Servers on Ubuntu 14.04 | SaltStack installation walkthrough for Ubuntu 14.04 | ||
| Docker Swarm 1.12 Cluster Orchestration with SaltStack | Let's see how we can automate the spin-up of a cluster using SaltStack | ||