Information Technology

VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config: Deploy & Manage (v8.4)

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Description

This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in deploying and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config. SaltStack Config is a powerful software configuration management component available in VMware vRealize® Automation. With SaltStack Config you can easily define optimized, secure software states and enforce them across your entire environment, including virtualized, hybrid, or public cloud systems. In this course, you are introduced to configuration management and how SaltStack Config can install software, maintain system configurations, change systems immediately with scalable remote execution, and automatically correct configuration problems in deployed virtual applications.

Course Overview

This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in deploying and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config. SaltStack Config is a powerful software configuration management component available in VMware vRealize® Automation. With SaltStack Config you can easily define optimized, secure software states and enforce them across your entire environment, including virtualized, hybrid, or public cloud systems. In this course, you are introduced to configuration management and how SaltStack Config can install software, maintain system configurations, change systems immediately with scalable remote execution, and automatically correct
configuration problems in deployed virtual applications.

Course Objective

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Use VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ to install SaltStack Config
Describe the architecture of SaltStack Config
Deploy Salt minions from VMware vRealize® Automation™
Create simple, human-readable infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure systems and software anywhere in your environment
Configure roles and permissions for users and groups to manage and interact with SaltStack Config
Manage systems with Jinja and YAML code
Automatically enforce desired states across your entire IT footprint
Keep critical software up to date
Enact change immediately across your entire enterprise with fast, scalable remote execution
Use SaltStack Config orchestration
Create and manage reactors and beacons that enable self-healing configurations

Who Should Attend

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators

Course Introduction Lesson Id 1

Course Introduction

SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture Lesson Id 2

SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture

Installing SaltStack Config Lesson Id 3

Installing SaltStack Config

SaltStack Config Security Lesson Id 4

SaltStack Config Security

Targeting Minions Lesson Id 5

Targeting Minions

Remote Execution and Job Management Lesson Id 6

Remote Execution and Job Management

SaltStack Config States Lesson Id 7

SaltStack Config States

SaltStack Config Pillar Data Lesson Id 8

SaltStack Config Pillar Data

SaltStack Config State Requirement and Declarations Lesson Id 9

SaltStack Config State Requirement and Declarations

Using Jinja and YAML Lesson Id 10

Using Jinja and YAML

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Course Introduction	Introductions and course logistics<br />Course objectives<br />
2	SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture	Describe the purpose of SaltStack Config<br />Define vRealize Automation and its services<br />Define SaltStack SecOps<br />SaltStack Config deployment types<br />Components of SaltStack Config and their roles
3	Installing SaltStack Config	SaltStack Config installation from vRealize Suite<br />Lifecycle Manager<br />Accessing SaltStack Config console<br />Salt minion types<br />Installing Salt minion manually<br />Installing Salt minion using cloudConfig<br />Accepting minion keys<br />
4	SaltStack Config Security	Overview of vRealize Automation roles<br />Directory service connections<br />Synchronizing with a directory service<br />Editing directory service connections<br />Deleting directory service connections<br />Creation and management of local users<br />Roles and permissions<br />Advanced permissions
5	Targeting Minions	Configuring minion attributes, grains, and custom<br />grains<br />Creating minion target groups based on grains,<br />globs, regular expressions, complex matching, and<br />lists
6	Remote Execution and Job Management	Using modules, functions, and arguments<br />Generating documentation on available modules<br />and functions<br />Creating, running, and scheduling jobs<br />AD HOC jobs
7	SaltStack Config States	Overview of SaltStack Config states<br />State and flow<br />State files management<br />State modules<br />Testing and verifying states<br />Package management<br />SLS files<br />Top file<br />Creating initial SLS files<br />Creating and applying highstate
8	SaltStack Config Pillar Data	Pillar concepts<br />Pillar configuration<br />Using the get function<br />Passing inline pillar data<br />Managing users with SLS<br />Using pillars in SaltStack states<br />
9	SaltStack Config State Requirement and Declarations	ID compared to names<br />State execution order<br />Implicit orders<br />Order declaration<br />Requisite declarations<br />Including other SLS files<br />Altering states<br />Using requisites and declarations to install and<br />manage software
10	Using Jinja and YAML	SaltStack renderers<br />YAML SaltStack configuration file format<br />YAML lists, dictionaries, and block structures<br />Jinja basics<br />Using the Jinja renderer<br />Grains with Jinja<br />Jinja conditionals, lists, and loops<br />YAML dictionary<br />Jinja dictionary