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© 2018 SALTSTACKMike Place — SaltStack Principal Maintainer
2
Who am I and why would you care?
Mike Place — Salt Maintainer
I manage the SaltStack project and I
travel the world, getting into spirited
conversations about how to manage
systems.
3
What is Salt anyhow?
Salt is an event-driven continuous automation engine
A massive community
Salt Open Source Project
• Salt OSS created in Feb. 2011
• Loosely coupled, powerful system management tools
• Pervasive adoption
• Tech powered by Salt incl: Kubernetes, Nutanix, IBM,
Cloudflare, EMC, Cisco & dozens more
• Mostly used for complex, Web-scale automation
• 37:1 commit to contributor ratio
• Sticky technology and friendly community
SUSE collaboration
• SUSE Manager
• Ceph
• Docker
• JEOS
Current Contributors (Open Hub)
Salt 720
Docker 590
Puppet 150
1900+ All-time Contributors
4M+ Annual Downloads
69,000+ Commits
Master & minions
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Salt is more than config management
● Salt is a systems management platform
● Salt is a foundation for complex management
● Salt has a lot going on...
● Salt can be broken down to four macro components...
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SaltStack Automation and Orchestration
Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible
Remote Execution
Remote Execution
Minion Requests Connection
Master Accepts Communication
Persistent, Asynchronous,
Connection
Salt Architecture
Master
Pillar
Reactor
Mine
Minion
Grains
Beacon
Modules
Salt * module.function arguments
TARGET INSTRUCTION SET
ØMQ
MESSAGE
BUS
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SaltStack Automation and Orchestration
Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible
Configuration Management
Configuration Management
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SaltStack Automation and Orchestration
Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible
Event System
Unique event-driven automation
Authentication events
Start events
Cloud events
File system changes
Network and disk usage
System load
Key events
Shell activity
Service status
Job events
System Events &
Data
DevOps orchestration
Security remediation
File system changes
Processor load
Memory usage
Reactor Commands
Auto-scale infra
Configuration drift
Service status
Disk usage
Event Reactor
(Master)
Infrastructure Nodes
(Minions)
Servers
IoTWindows
Virtual Machines
Containers
Public Cloud
Storage
Hyper-Converged
Networking
Private Cloud
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SaltStack: Cloud Management
Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible
15
SaltStack Automation and Orchestration
Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible
Remote Execution
Configuration Management
Cloud Management
Event System
16
Demo Time
THANK YOU
© 2016 SALTSTACK
801.207.7440
www.saltstack.com
3400 N. Ashton Blvd. Suite 110
Lehi, UT 84043
@SaltStack

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OSDC 2018 | Introduction to SaltStack in the Modern Data Center by Mike Place

  • 1. Systems Automation © 2018 SALTSTACKMike Place — SaltStack Principal Maintainer
  • 2. 2 Who am I and why would you care? Mike Place — Salt Maintainer I manage the SaltStack project and I travel the world, getting into spirited conversations about how to manage systems.
  • 3. 3 What is Salt anyhow? Salt is an event-driven continuous automation engine
  • 4. A massive community Salt Open Source Project • Salt OSS created in Feb. 2011 • Loosely coupled, powerful system management tools • Pervasive adoption • Tech powered by Salt incl: Kubernetes, Nutanix, IBM, Cloudflare, EMC, Cisco & dozens more • Mostly used for complex, Web-scale automation • 37:1 commit to contributor ratio • Sticky technology and friendly community SUSE collaboration • SUSE Manager • Ceph • Docker • JEOS Current Contributors (Open Hub) Salt 720 Docker 590 Puppet 150 1900+ All-time Contributors 4M+ Annual Downloads 69,000+ Commits
  • 6. 6 Salt is more than config management ● Salt is a systems management platform ● Salt is a foundation for complex management ● Salt has a lot going on... ● Salt can be broken down to four macro components...
  • 7. 7 SaltStack Automation and Orchestration Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible Remote Execution
  • 8. Remote Execution Minion Requests Connection Master Accepts Communication Persistent, Asynchronous, Connection
  • 9. Salt Architecture Master Pillar Reactor Mine Minion Grains Beacon Modules Salt * module.function arguments TARGET INSTRUCTION SET ØMQ MESSAGE BUS
  • 10. 10 SaltStack Automation and Orchestration Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible Configuration Management
  • 12. 12 SaltStack Automation and Orchestration Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible Event System
  • 13. Unique event-driven automation Authentication events Start events Cloud events File system changes Network and disk usage System load Key events Shell activity Service status Job events System Events & Data DevOps orchestration Security remediation File system changes Processor load Memory usage Reactor Commands Auto-scale infra Configuration drift Service status Disk usage Event Reactor (Master) Infrastructure Nodes (Minions) Servers IoTWindows Virtual Machines Containers Public Cloud Storage Hyper-Converged Networking Private Cloud
  • 15. 15 SaltStack Automation and Orchestration Intelligent - Scalable - Flexible Remote Execution Configuration Management Cloud Management Event System
  • 17. THANK YOU © 2016 SALTSTACK 801.207.7440 www.saltstack.com 3400 N. Ashton Blvd. Suite 110 Lehi, UT 84043 @SaltStack