Development Guides

• Get started
  • 1. Install Salt
  • 2. Clone repositories
  • 3. Add public key to remote servers
  • 4. Configure Salt for non-root user
• Learn Salt
• Style guides
  • Language style guides
    • Jinja templating language
    • YAML data-serialization language
      • Avoid gotchas
  • Salt style guide
    • State IDs
    • State functions
      • cmd
      • file
      • service
    • Includes
    • Requisites
    • Macros
    • Looping over Pillar data
  • Configuration file style guide
  • grains
• Make changes
  • Configure firewall
    • Open a port
    • Close a port
    • Troubleshoot
  • Configure Apache
    • Allow HTTP/HTTPS traffic
    • Add sites
      • Add basic authentication
    • Acquire SSL certificates
      • Test
      • Troubleshoot
    • Enable Apache modules
  • Configure PostgreSQL
    • Specify the version
    • Enable public access
    • Add service accounts
    • Add your configuration
    • Set up backups
      • Additional steps for replica servers
    • Set up replication
  • Configure Python apps
    • Add basic configuration
    • Add configuration files
    • Configure Django
    • Configure uWSGI
    • Configure Apache
  • Configure Elasticsearch
    • Check system configuration
    • Set swappiness value
    • Enable public access
      • Troubleshoot
  • Configure rsyslog and logrotate
    • rsyslog
    • logrotate
  • Remove Salt configuration
    • Delete a file
    • Delete a line from a file
    • Delete a user
    • Delete a cron job
    • Delete a service
    • Delete a package
    • Delete a firewall setting
    • Delete an Apache module
    • Delete a virtual host
• Test and commit
  • Test changes
    • Using a virtual machine
  • Review code
• Maintain
  • Remove unneeded services and packages
  • List manually installed packages