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🧂 A collaborative curated list of awesome SaltStack resources, tutorials and other salted stuff.
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Official resources
- GitHub repo - Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration.
- Jinja2 documentation - This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt.
- Salt Module Contributions - Salt modules developed by the community.
- SaltStack site - Company website.
- 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.
- Training and certification - Official training.
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`.
- Secure Pillar in SaltStack with GPG - Encrypting your pillar data can be done with GPG.
- Network-Automation with Salt, NAPALM and Kubernetes - How to manage legacy devices that are not able to install software natively on themselves.
- Using Salt like Ansible - How to use Salt in a way similar to Ansible.
- Using Salt with reclass - Use class inheritance to define nodes roles and avoid duplication.
- Text editor plugins for Salt states and YAML/Jinja - Covers plugins for different editors when writing Salt states.
- Writing a custom Salt Grain - Writing a custom Salt Grain, and why you might want to.
- 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.
- Prometheus - Auto-deploying Consul and Exporters using Saltstack - How to deploy SaltStack, Consul and the Prometheus Node Exporter on Linux.
- Network Automation at Scale - Up and running in 60 minutes.
- SaltStack Overview - An excellent overview and introduction of Salt.
- Parsing Command Output in Saltstack with JC - How to easily parse remote command output in SaltStack, using `jc`.
Uncategorized
- Salt (software) - Wikipedia (English).
Tutorials
- About SaltStack - Extensive blogpost with lots of in-depth information.
- 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.
- Vagrant & SaltStack Quickstart Tutorial - Getting started with SaltStack and Vagrant.
- 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.
- 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.
- SaltStack - Quick Guide - Part of the larger "Learn SaltStack"-tutorial at Tutorials Point.
- Upgrading Salt to Python 3 - How to switch SaltStack from Python2 to Python3.
- Salt Guides and Tutorials, by Linode - A good collection of Salt guides and tutorials created and managed by Linode.
Books
- O'Reilly - Network Automation at Scale - By Mircea Ulinic and Seth House (an ebook sponsored by Cloudflare).
- Leanpub - SaltStack For DevOps - By Aymen El Amri.
- Leanpub - Getting Started with SaltStack - By Ben Hosmer.
- Packt - Extending SaltStack - By Joseph Hall.
- Packt - Salt Cookbook - By Anirban Saha.
- Packt - Mastering SaltStack, 2nd ed. - By Joseph Hall.
Videos
- Salt Project on Twitch - Salt Project's official Twitch channel.
- Testing Salt States with Docker - SaltStack PDX - June 23, 2015 - Jason Denning.
- 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.
- Managing Your Infrastructure with SaltStack - PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers.
- SaltStack for FreeBSD - A 7-part video crash course on SaltStack for FreeBSD.
Tools
- salt-pepper - A CLI Frontend to the salt-api systems.
- Alcali - A web based tool for monitoring and administrating Saltstack Salt.
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.
- salt-deconstructed - Video and presentation (slides & PDF) by Carson Anderson.
Discussions
- Reddit: Vagrat, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer.. Something - Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in `/r/sysadmin`.
Community
- Salt IRC chat - IRC about Salt on Libera Chat.
- SaltStack Community Slack - Official SaltStack Slack Community ([Signup Link](https://saltstackcommunity.herokuapp.com)).
- SaltStack on Reddit - SaltStack subreddit.
- Twitter feed - Official Salt Project Twitter account.
- SaltConf - Annual user conference for SaltStack customers, users, partners, developers and community members.
Formulas
- Salt Formulas - A community developed SaltStack formulas ecosystem.
- Writing SaltStack formulas - An overview on writing SaltStack formulas.
- Salt Formulas - depth blogpost about Salt Formulas.
Cheat sheets
- Salt Commands cheat sheet - List of common Salt commands.
- SaltStack Wiki - Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki.
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.
- Docker Swarm 1.12 Cluster Orchestration with SaltStack - Let's see how we can automate the spin-up of a cluster using SaltStack.

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