Tutorial series

Managing Development Environments with SaltStack

Managing Development Environments with SaltStack

Introduction

SaltStack is a powerful remote execution tool and configuration management system. In this series, we will use Salt to configure reproducible development, staging, and production environments onto which we can deploy an application. This is primarily meant as a learning exercise to demonstrate some common Salt components and strategies that can be used to control your infrastructure.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

An Introduction to SaltStack Terminology and Concepts

Tutorial

SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master

Tutorial

SaltStack Infrastructure: Configuring Salt-Cloud to Spin Up DigitalOcean Resources

Tutorial

SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for Nginx Web Servers

Tutorial

SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for HAProxy Load Balancers

Tutorial

SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for MySQL Database Servers

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