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Getting Started with SaltStack

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John Tsai | Area Director | @johnstsaiCharles C. Ruffino | Sales Engineer | @CharlesCRuffino

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Agenda

Introductions

Why do I need it

Remote Execution 101

SaltStack Basics

Where did SaltStack come from

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all -Nelson Mandela

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IntroductionsSalt is what makes things taste bad when it isn’t in them

Who are we

Background

Why SaltStack

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Where Did SaltStack Come From

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Why do I need it?Mmm Tasty!

SaltStack is systems management software built for cloud, Web scale, complex data center infrastructure and enterprise IT.

SaltStack software provides predictive infrastructure orchestration, combined with native configuration management, to address a massive market opportunity.

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Why do I need it?

•Extremely flexible•Extremely extensible•Highly modular•Easy to customize•Scalable•Secure•Remote Execution Framework

SaltStack… because robots should have all the crap jobs by now!

Remote Execution 101Make it go!

Basic Remote Execution:

$ ssh charles@myhost “ls /home/charles” some_file.txt

Multiple hosts:

$ for h in myhost1 myhost2 myhost3;> do ssh charles@myhost “ls /home/charles”;> done

Remote Execution 101Make it do!

What about hundreds of hosts?

And I need to do this many times?

With different login credentials on some?

What if I need to do something with the output?

Remote Execution 101and going…

How about a script?

#!/bin/bash# Make sure your SSH config (~/.ssh/config) is setup!

command=$1host_list=$2for h in host_list; do ssh “$h” “$command”done

# FIXME: Add output handling# FIXME: Add error handling# FIXME: Add logging# TODO: FIND A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS!!!

Remote Execution 101and doing…

We need a script that can handle:

Executing arbitrary commands… on one or more remote hosts… with a sane way to get the output (STDOUT? Write a file? Text Output? JSON? YAML???)… and graceful error handling… and logging… and authentication… everything else I haven’t thought of yet!

Remote Execution 101The Realization Sets In…

We only want to run a command if the host is in a particular state…

The command is different for some hosts because they have a different OS

We need to configure host X before we configure host Y

We want to generate a file from a template, using data from an external database

We need to keep that external data secret

Say What?

You want me to maintain a 5,000 line BASH script?

Syndic

Public Cloud

DevOps

Code

Apps

CloudOps

ITOps

3rd PartyIntegrations

CMDB

Reactor

Config &State

Command& Control

Multi-master

Abstraction layer

Master

AES

SSL

Curve

ØMQSSH

RAET

Physical

Containers

OS

Virtual

Grains

Beacons

Pillars

Minions

File server

SaltStack Basics

SaltStack BasicsProvisioning

SaltStack BasicsInfrastructure Automation

SaltStack BasicsBusiness/Cloud/Code/Dev/Infrastructure Orchestration

SaltStack BasicsITSM Empowered!

SaltStack BasicsSaltStack automation for: CloudOps, ITOps, DevOps

SaltStack BasicsSaltStack automation for: CloudOps, ITOps, DevOps

Extreme flexibility:• Master and minion architecture, or masterless;• Agent (minion) or agentless (Salt SSH);• Permanent, encrypted and authenticated connection (ZeroMQ / AES);• Open API for third-party cloud and software integration;• Asynchronous data collection and command execution;• Push or pull;• Lightweight and efficient;

SaltStack BasicsSaltStack automation for: CloudOps, ITOps, DevOps

Master (controls minions):• Pub / sub and reply channel;• Two open ports on master;• Multi-master for SaltStack high availability.

Minions (do all the work, self aware):• Listen and receive commands from a remote Salt master;• No open ports;• Not chatty;• Command feedback;• Peer system - live data sharing between minions;• Salt mine - only the most recent minion data, cached data is visible to other minions;• Returners - historical minion data;• Syndic (a special minion that passes commands from a higher master);

More InformationSaltStack Meetup: Los Angeles Thursday May 7, 6:00pm

http://www.meetup.com/SaltStack-Los-Angeles-Meetup/

More Informationhttp://saltstack.com/training/

More Information

http://saltstack.com/training/https://www.youtube.com/user/SaltStackhttp://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/http://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/modules/all/index.htmlhttp://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/states/all/index.htmlhttps://github.com/saltstack

Link all the Things

801.207.7440

www.saltstack.com

3400 N. Ashton Blvd. Suite 110 Lehi, UT 84043

@SaltStackInc

Thank You!