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Jul 05 - Jul 11, 2021

Community

• Salt IRC chat - IRC about Salt on Libera Chat.

• SaltStack on Reddit - SaltStack subreddit.

Mar 01 - Mar 07, 2021

Tutorials

• Salt Guides and Tutorials, by Linode - A good collection of Salt guides and tutorials created and managed by Linode.

Videos

• Salt Project on Twitch - Salt Project's official Twitch channel.

Community

• Facebook - Official Salt Project Facebook account.

Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2021

Official resources

• Salt Project site - Salt Project (Salt Open Source) website.

• vRealize Automation SaltStack Config - vRealize Automation SaltStack Config website at VMware (new name for commercial SaltStack product).

• GitLab repo - Salt Project's eventual new home.

• SaltStack Documentation - Official documentation.

• Salt in 10 minutes - Official walkthrough.

• SaltStack Get Started - These tutorials walk you through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running.

Tutorials

• About SaltStack - Extensive blogpost with lots of in-depth information.

Books

• O'Reilly - Network Automation at Scale - By Mircea Ulinic and Seth House (an ebook sponsored by Cloudflare).

Videos

• SaltConf19 - YouTube - Video recordings of SaltConf19 presentations.

• SaltConf20 - YouTube - Video recordings of SaltConf20 presentations.

Blogposts and opinions

• Using Salt with reclass - Use class inheritance to define nodes roles and avoid duplication.

Community

• SaltStack Community Slack - Official SaltStack Slack Community (Signup Link).

• #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.

Formulas

• Salt Formulas In-depth blogpost about Salt Formulas.

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021

Books

• O'Reilly - Salt Essentials - By Craig Sebenik, Thomas Hatch.

• 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.

Presentations

• 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.

Blogposts and opinions

• Complex User management with Saltstack (using Py! renderer) - Using a centralized User YAML file that contains all users' data.

Cheat sheets

• SaltStack Cheat Sheet Plus (⭐33) - By Facu de la Cruz.

Attic

• Docker Swarm 1.12 Cluster Orchestration with SaltStack - Let's see how we can automate the spin-up of a cluster using SaltStack.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

Tutorials

• Revised Getting Started with SaltStack - Part 1 - Simple setup and play around on the command line.

Blogposts and opinions

• Parsing Command Output in Saltstack with JC - How to easily parse remote command output in SaltStack, using jc.

Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2020

Blogposts and opinions

• SaltStack Overview - An excellent overview and introduction of Salt.

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2020

Blogposts and opinions

• Network Automation at Scale - Up and running in 60 minutes.

Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2020

Blogposts and opinions

• Prometheus - Auto-deploying Consul and Exporters using Saltstack - How to deploy SaltStack, Consul and the Prometheus Node Exporter on Linux.

Jun 08 - Jun 14, 2020

Official resources

• Salt Module Contributions (⭐169) - Salt modules developed by the community.

Integrations

• Jenkins Salt API Plugin - This plugin sends a SaltStack API message as a build step.

• Rundeck (⭐8) - Generate Rundeck node resources from the Salt Mine.

Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2020

Videos

• SaltConf18 - YouTube - Video recordings of SaltConf18 presentations.

Attic

• 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.

Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2020

Tutorials

• Upgrading Salt to Python 3 - How to switch SaltStack from Python2 to Python3.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020

Blogposts and opinions

• Vagrant Provisioning with SaltStack - Provisioning Virtual System using Masterless Salt Stack.

• Salt DevKit with External Formulas - Local Development with Vagrant using external Salt formulas.

Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2020

Tutorials

• 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.

Blogposts and opinions

• Writing a custom Salt Grain - Writing a custom Salt Grain, and why you might want to.

Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2019

Tools

• ISalt (⭐66) - IPython-based command shell for interactive Salt programming.

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

Tools

• salt-lint (⭐150) - Checks Salt state files (SLS) for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019

Code

• valentin2105/Kubernetes-Saltstack (⭐206) - Saltstack recipe to deploy Kubernetes cluster from scratch.

Tools

• Alcali - A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt.

Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2019

Tools

• salt-sproxy (⭐115) - Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of devices and applications, without running (Proxy) Minions.

Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

Tools

• Silica - A Flask-based lightweight Salt web console.

Blogposts and opinions

• Salt Sudo - Using Salt custom modules to manage sudo access for users.

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

Blogposts and opinions

• 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.

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Presentations

• salt-deconstructed - Video and presentation (slides & PDF) by Carson Anderson.

Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2018

Blogposts and opinions

• Text editor plugins for Salt states and YAML/Jinja - Covers plugins for different editors when writing Salt states.

Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2018

Tools

• salt-pepper - A CLI Frontend to the salt-api systems.

Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

Cheat sheets

• Salt Commands cheat sheet - List of common Salt commands.

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018

Official resources

• Training and certification - Official training.

Tutorials

• Vagrant & SaltStack Quickstart Tutorial - Getting started with SaltStack and Vagrant.

Tools

• SaltGUI (⭐499) - A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure.

Community

• SaltConf - Annual user conference for SaltStack customers, users, partners, developers and community members.

Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018

Tools

• Molten (⭐208) - Molten is a WebUI for the REST API exposed by Saltstack.

Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018

Tutorials

• SaltStack - Quick Guide - Part of the larger "Learn SaltStack"-tutorial at Tutorials Point.

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018

Tutorials

• The Simplest Way to Learn SaltStack - Start to learn the basics of SaltStack by setting it up in Docker.

Blogposts and opinions

• Using Salt like Ansible - How to use Salt in a way similar to Ansible.

Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2018

Blogposts and opinions

• Network-Automation with Salt, NAPALM and Kubernetes - How to manage legacy devices that are not able to install software natively on themselves.

Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2018

Videos

• SaltStack for FreeBSD - A 7-part video crash course on SaltStack for FreeBSD.

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2018

Videos

• Testing Salt States with Docker - SaltStack PDX - June 23, 2015 - Jason Denning.

• 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.

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2018

Official resources

• GitHub repo (⭐14k) - Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration.

• Jinja2 documentation - This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt.

Tutorials

• 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.

• Salt-API, A Crash Course - Get a barebones salt-api proof of concept up and running.

• SaltStack Examples - Will teach you some of default functions in a quick way.

• Introduction to SaltStack (⭐19) - A two day course designed to quickly introduce System Administrators and Application Developers on how to start using Saltstack.

Code

• madflojo/masterless-salt-base (⭐27) - Quickly bootstrap a generic(ish) Ubuntu server. One that is ready to host Docker containers.

Videos

• SaltStack - SaltStack's official YouTube channel.

• Managing Your Infrastructure with SaltStack - PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers.

• 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.

Blogposts and opinions

• 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.

• Secure Pillar in SaltStack with GPG - Encrypting your pillar data can be done with GPG.

Discussions

• Reddit: Vagrat, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer.. Something - Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in /r/sysadmin.

Community

• Mailing list - Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups.

• SaltStack Meetups - Worldwide Meetup groups.

Formulas

• 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.

Cheat sheets

• SaltStack Wiki (⭐14k) - Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki.

Uncategorized

• Salt (software) - Wikipedia (English).