Saltstack

This post serves as a learning journey documentation for the relatively long process to figure out the missing parts to make a containerized Salt API server work alongside Salt Master container on the same host. As a beginner with very low Salt usage experience being tasked to explore using Salt…

I’ve been using Salt for several years managing my company’s infra and networks. Its a great product and makes any sysadmin’s life much easier. Here are 5 most important tips I’ve learned from the experience. 1. Backup all files managed by Salt. This one was a trial-by-fire lesson. I rolled out some user home directory changes via…

A flexible, lightweight, and easy-to-use framework for creating formulas in the Salt configuration management system. — If you’ve never heard of a Salt “formula” it’s probably because the term is somewhat ambiguous. It’s analogous to a Chef Recipe or an Ansible Playbook. In those tools, a specific directory structure is dictated by the product — your variables are defined here, your desired states are declared here…

One of the departments of Triple is Technology Operations (Techops), which I’m part of. The purpose of this department is to manage servers and cloud-hosting solutions for our clients. We handle things such as patching, monitoring, change management and incident handling. In order to provide these services, we use several…

A beginners guide to Salt — What is Salt automation? SaltStack, also known as Salt, is a new approach to infrastructure management. SaltStack is an open source, configuration management software and remote execution engine. It is a command line tool, written in Python. Salt allows users to target and issue commands to several machines directly. It deploys a master which…

This article explains how to design a reporting dashboard for SaltStack infrastructure with the help of Prometheus’s node exporter & Salt’s reactor system. — For delivering exceptional product experiences to the customers, a massive infrastructure is made for Dynamic Media, considering it highly available, reliable, scalable, and secure. …

Background — A primer on how to generate bandwidth rates between different datacenters, regions or hosts Unless you have dedicated network tools and resources, its hard to grasp bandwidth across your hosts and regions. …

Configuration management deals with managing the changes across the life cycle of the product. With the advancement in IT operations and growing requirements in the industry, it has become very important to pay attention to the configurations of the applications relating to the systems involved. To ensure that all parts…

Hello, today I will share with you a brief summary of my research. As it can be understood from the title, we will try to find an answer to the question of the differences between DevOps tools and which one should I choose. I hope it helps you with your…