Learn Salt

We use Salt (a.k.a. SaltStack) to deploy apps to servers, and to otherwise manage servers.

We use Agentless Salt (i.e. using the salt-ssh command). This avoids having to run Salt minions on servers, and requires only SSH to connect to the server and Python to run operations on it.

To orient you to the repository: When you run the ./run.py script, it calls the salt-ssh command, which reads Saltfile, which directs it to read the salt-config directory. salt-config/master directs it to read the salt and pillar directories. The top.sls file in each directory serves as an index to the other SLS files, which in turn refer to the files in sub-directories.

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