A collaborative curated list of awesome Salt Project resources, tutorials and other salted stuff.
Built on python, Salt uses simple and human-readable YAML combined with event-driven automation to deploy and configure complex IT systems. In addition to leveling-up Aria Automation Config, Salt can be found under the hood of products from Juniper, Cisco, Cloudflare, Nutanix, SUSE, and Tieto, to name a few.
SaltStack, the company, was acquired by VMware in 2020. Salt Project remains an open source ecosystem that VMware supports and contributes to.
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- Official Resources
- Related Documentation
- Tutorials
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- Integrations
- Books
- Videos
- Tools
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- Blogposts and opinions
- Discussions
- Community
- Formulas
- Cheat sheets
- Uncategorized
- Attic
- Salt Project site - Salt Project (Salt Open Source) website.
saltGitHub repo - Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration.- Salt Project User Guide - These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running.
- Salt Project Install Guide - These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running.
- Salt Project Reference Documentation - Official home page of reference documentation.
- Salt Project Package Repository - Where
saltpackages are officially stored and distributed.
- VMware Aria Automation Config - Aria Automation Config website at VMware (new name for commercial SaltStack product).
- Jinja2 documentation - This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt.
- 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 Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master - Part 2 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- SaltStack Infrastructure: Configuring Salt-Cloud to Spin Up DigitalOcean Resources - Part 3 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for Nginx Web Servers - Part 4 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for HAProxy Load Balancers - Part 5 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for MySQL Database Servers - Part 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.
- 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 - 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.
- 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.
- Jenkins Salt API Plugin - This plugin sends a SaltStack API message as a build step.
- Rundeck - Generate Rundeck node resources from the Salt Mine.
- 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.
- 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.
- SaltConf21 - YouTube - Video recordings of SaltConf21 presentations.
- SaltGUI - A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure.
- Silica - A Flask-based lightweight Salt web console.
- Molten - Molten is a WebUI for the REST API exposed by Saltstack.
- salt-pepper - 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.
- Alcali - A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt.
- ISalt - IPython-based command shell for interactive Salt programming.
- salt-exporter - Salt Prometheus exporter working out of the box without any configuration on Salt side, comes with an event watcher TUI.
- 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.
- 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
file.blockreplace. - SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG - On secure encryption/decryption of pillar data.
- 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
jc.
- Reddit: Vagrat, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer.. Something - Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in
/r/sysadmin.
- Salt IRC chat - IRC about Salt on Libera Chat.
- Salt Project Community Discord Server - Official Salt Project Community Discord Server (Replaces Official SaltStack Slack Community)
- SaltStack on Reddit - SaltStack subreddit.
- #saltstack on Network to Code Slack - #saltstack channel on Network To Code Slack (Signup Link).
- #saltstack on VMware {code} Community Slack - #saltstack channel on VMware {code} Community Slack (Signup Link).
- Twitter feed - Official Salt Project Twitter account.
- Mailing list - Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups.
- SaltStack Meetups - Worldwide Meetup groups.
- Salt Project User Group Meetups (SPUGM) - US-focused meetups.
- Facebook - Official Salt Project Facebook account.
- 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. 💎
- SaltStack Cheat Sheet Plus - By Facu de la Cruz.
- Salt Commands cheat sheet - List of common Salt commands.
- SaltStack Wiki - Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki.
- Salt (software) - Wikipedia (English).
- How To Install Salt on Ubuntu 12.04 - Part 1 of 2 in the series An Introduction to Salt.
- How To Create Your First Salt Formula - Part 2 in the series An Introduction to Salt.
- 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.
