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Salt Cookbook

Salt Cookbook

By : Anirban Saha
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Salt Cookbook

Salt Cookbook

3.5 (2)
By: Anirban Saha

Overview of this book

If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Using Python functions in conditionals

Being based on Python, one of the biggest advantages of Salt is to be able to use a lot of Salt-specific features such as functions. In this recipe, you will learn how to use Python functions in Salt to manipulate data and make efficient use of them to configure our infrastructure.

How to do it...

  1. Configure two minions, one named stgdc1app01 and another named stgdc2app01.
  2. Run the following commands to get the grains with which we will be working in this recipe:
    [root@salt-master ~]# salt 'stgdc1app01' grains.item \ ip_interfaces hwaddr_interfaces
    stgdc1app01:
      hwaddr_interfaces: {'lo': '00:00:00:00:00:00', 'eth0': '00:0c:29:ef:d5:56', 'eth1': '00:0c:29:ef:d5:4c'}
      ip_interfaces: {'lo': ['127.0.0.1'], 'eth0': ['192.168.0.2'], 'eth1': ['192.168.29.128']}
    
    [root@salt-master ~]# salt 'stgdc2app01' grains.item \ ip_interfaces...

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