Free SaltStack Course (6 lessons so far)

[Ken Erwin]

Hello everyone!

I've been working on a SaltStack video course, and currently have six lessons up:

• Introduction to Salt
• Adding a Salt Minion (Linux)
• Adding a Salt Minion (Windows)
• Salted Chocolatey Windows
• Salt Targeting
• Salt States

I know all of these topics are probably too simple for everyone here, but I wanted to reach out to see what topics you think we should cover, if there are any comments/suggestions, and hopefully these might be helpful if you're trying to get the rest of your team up to speed on how to use Salt.

Thank you!

Ken @ DevOps Library

[Christian McHugh]

Greetings Ken,

You may also want to investigate salt's chocolatey modules:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html

Instead of using cmd.run to perform the chocolatey and packages installs, there's a saltier (and error detect-ier) way of accomplishing it. 

Cheers

[Ken Erwin]

Hello Christian,

 

Thank you very much!  I didn’t even realize that was already built in, that’s a much better way of doing it.  I just updated the video with an annotation over that section.  Thanks again!

 

Ken