Mike Place - Introduction to SaltStack

In this talk, we will cover the basics of using SaltStack to configure servers and workstations through Salt’s powerful remote execution and configuration management engine. We will provide overviews of many of the core concepts and then provide demonstrations of each concept so that each attendee can immediately begin to use Salt to solve everyday problems in their IT environments.

Mike Place is the Sr. Platform Developer on the core engineering team at SaltStack. He works primarily on SaltStack core internals, with a focus on performance and optimization. He has twenty years of experience in UNIX and Linux systems engineering across a wide variety of environments.

[rushy]

Thanks for this, it's by far the best introduction to Saltstack I've come across. The explanation is succinct and answers many of the questions I had prior to watching.

[steveoc]

Still relevant as ever, and its 2019. Haven't touched Salt before now. Having "semi mastered" Kubernetes for work, Im looking at something similar for my own projects (which are just as ambitious), but Id rather not use Kubernetes for that. Looking for leaner and more flexible alternatives ... preferably something that doesnt choke on FreeBSD too.


Salt keeps coming up in recommendations everywhere you look.


Great intro - might be timely to do a followup, because I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat :)
Thanks

[bananaforscale]

Thank you for posting this great presentation!

[MrKnnknn]

I honestly did not pay attention to the "uhhh" until I read the comments. This is a great presenter.

[rajkirangade]

Very nice towards Introduction. Thank you!

[alimoreno]

Share the link to the git status indicator (prompt) please!

[geodezix]

You need to slow down. This is an "Introduction to Salt". Rather than trying to explain a lot of things in a short time, explain a small number of topics in a long time.

[lmind]

This dude could seriously use a few sessions with Toastmasters. Makes him sound a bit derp with all those "uh"'s. Good info, just tough to listen to with all those filler uh's.

[mikeczarny]

so he says "uh", it's kind of annoying, but so what. engineers aren't great public speakers. get over it.

[etherous]

Try and count how many times he says 'uh'...

[nictuku]

Not a very nice attitude, to discredit the value his marketing colleagues and complain about their graphs at every opportunity.

[counterpunK]

Sad I couldn't watch this, it seems very interesting and technically helpful, but uhh...I couldn't uhh.. finish listening uhh to a uh...sentence without.. uh..cringing.