Chapters

• Installation
  • Arch Linux
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • FreeBSD
    • Installation
    • Post-Installation
  • Gentoo
  • OS X
  • Red Hat Enterprise
    • Enable EPEL
    • Installation
    • Post Installation
  • Solaris
  • SuSE
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows
• Command & Control
  • ZeroMQ
    • What is ZeroMQ?
    • ZeroMQ and Salt
  • Key Management
    • Listing keys
    • Accepting keys
    • Rejecting keys
    • Printing keys
    • Deleting keys
    • Key fingerprints
    • Key Generation
  • Grains
    • Introduction
    • Goals
    • Standard Grains
    • Listing Grains
    • Defining Grains
    • Precedence
    • Examples
    • Syncing & Updating
  • Pillar
  • Targeting
  • Remote Execution
  • Modules
  • Returners
  • Configuration Management
  • Renderers
  • States
• Events & Reactions
  • Event Bus
  • Reactor
• Job Management
  • JID
  • Job Management
• Web Interface & API
  • Halite
  • salt-api
• Scheduling Tasks
  • Scheduler
• Provisioning
  • Salt Bootstrap
  • Salt Cloud
  • Salt Virt
• Salt at Scale
  • Performance Tuning
  • High Availability
  • Syndication Masters
• Secret Storage
  • Introduction
  • Requirements
    • Encryption
    • Reliability
    • Scalability
    • Secret types
    • Administration
    • Access Control
    • Required Packages
    • Required Configuration
  • Architecture
    • Overview
    • Salt Master
    • Pillar Data
    • Salt Minion
  • Key Generation
  • GPG Agent Requirements
  • The GPG Agent
    • gpg.conf
    • gpg-agent.conf
    • gpg-agent
    • unlock the key
  • Conclusion
• Development
  • Writing Modules
    • Anatomy of a Salt module
    • header
    • imports
    • GLOBALS
    • __virtualname__
    • __virtual__()
  • Functions
    • “private”
    • “public”
    • Full Example
  • Running Commands & Executing Modules
  • Writing States
  • Writing Returners
  • Writing Renderers
  • Writing Grains
• Configuration Options
  • Master Config
  • Minion Config
  • Syndic Config