Course Overview
You will receive the advanced knowledge, abilities, and resources necessary to become proficient in setting up and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config during this three-day hands-on training course. In VMware vRealize® Automation, SaltStack Config is a potent software configuration management component. Using SaltStack Config, you can easily create secure, ideal software states and enforce them across your entire environment, including hybrid, virtualized, or public cloud systems.
In this course, you will learn about configuration management and how SaltStack Config can instal software, keep system configurations up to date, make rapid system changes via scalable remote execution, and automatically fix configuration issues in deployed virtual applications.
Prerequisites
Additionally, you ought to be aware of or grasp the following:
- Solid command of multiple Linux and Windows operating systems, including management and use.
- A working familiarity with VMware vSphere® environments.
Audience Profile
Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators
Learning Objectives
You should be able to complete the following goals by the end of the course:
- To instal SaltStack Config, use VMware vRealize Lifecycle ManagerTM.
- Describe the SaltStack Config architecture.
- Use VMware vRealize® AutomationTM to deploy Salt minions.
- Write straightforward, legible infrastructure-as-code that can be used to deploy and configure software and systems throughout your environment.
- Set up user and group roles and rights to control and communicate with SaltStack Config.
- Use YAML and Jinja code to manage systems.
- Across your whole IT footprint, automatically enact desired states.
- Update all essential software.
- With quick, scalable remote execution, you can implement change right away across your whole organisation.
- Employ orchestration with SaltStack Config.
- Develop self-healing configurations by creating and managing reactors and beacons.
Content Outline
- Course logistics and Introduction
- Course goals and objectives
- Describe SaltStack Config's goal.
- Explain vRealize Automation and the services it offers.
- Specify SecOps for SaltStack.
- Types of SaltStack Config deployment.
- The functions of the SaltStack Config's components.
- Installation of SaltStack Config through vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
- Using the SaltStack Configuration console.
- Minion salt kinds.
- Manually installing Salt Minion.
- Salt Minion installation via cloud-config.
- Taking the minion keys.
- vRealize Automation roles overview.
- Connections to directory services.
- Coordinating with an online directory service.
- Editing connections to directory services.
- Disabling connections to directory services.
- Establishing and controlling local users.
- Roles and privileges
- Extraordinary permissions.
- Setting up custom grains, grains, and minion traits.
- Using grains, globs, regular expressions, complicated matching, and lists to create minion target groups.
- Using modules, functions, and arguments
- Generating documentation on available modules and functions
- Creating, running, and scheduling jobs
- AD HOC jobs
- Overview of SaltStack Config states
- State files management
- State modules
- Testing and verifying states
- Package management
- SLS files
- Top file
- Creating initial SLS files
- Pillar concepts
- Pillar configuration
- Using the get function
- Passing inline pillar data
- Managing users with SLS
- Using pillars in SaltStack states
- ID versus names.
- List the sequence of execution.
- Implicit directives.
- Order announcement
- Mandatory declarations.
- Containing additional SLS files.
- Modifying state.
- Installing and managing software using declarations and requirements.
- SaltStack renderers
- YAML SaltStack configuration file format
- YAML lists, dictionaries, and block structures
- Jinja basics
- Using the Jinja renderer
- Grains with Jinja
- Jinja conditionals, lists, and loops
- YAML dictionary
- Jinja dictionary
- Software management
- Windows features and roles
- Local group policies
- Patching
- Windows software management
- Windows features management
- SaltStack Config orchestration
- SaltStack Config orchestration advantages
- Executing orchestration
- Orchestration state files
- Orchestration calls
- Requisites in orchestration
- Beacons
- Beacons configuration
- Beacon state modules
- SaltStack Config event bus
- Reactors
- Reactors configuration
- Reactors state Files
- Orchestration with beacons and reactors
FAQs
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