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.

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Learning Objectives

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

1
  • Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
    Course objectives

2
  • SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture

  • Describe the purpose of SaltStack Config
    Define vRealize Automation and its services
    Define SaltStack SecOps
    SaltStack Config deployment types
    Components of SaltStack Config and their roles

3
  • Installing SaltStack Config

  • SaltStack Config installation from vRealize Suite
    Lifecycle Manager
    Accessing SaltStack Config console
    Salt minion types
    Installing Salt minion manually
    Installing Salt minion using cloudConfig
    Accepting minion keys

4
  • SaltStack Config Security

  • Overview of vRealize Automation roles
    Directory service connections
    Synchronizing with a directory service
    Editing directory service connections
    Deleting directory service connections
    Creation and management of local users
    Roles and permissions
    Advanced permissions

5
  • Targeting Minions

  • Configuring minion attributes, grains, and custom
    grains
    Creating minion target groups based on grains,
    globs, regular expressions, complex matching, and
    lists

6
  • Remote Execution and Job Management

  • Using modules, functions, and arguments
    Generating documentation on available modules
    and functions
    Creating, running, and scheduling jobs
    AD HOC jobs

7
  • SaltStack Config States

  • Overview of SaltStack Config states
    State and flow
    State files management
    State modules
    Testing and verifying states
    Package management
    SLS files
    Top file
    Creating initial SLS files
    Creating and applying highstate

8
  • SaltStack Config Pillar Data

  • Pillar concepts
    Pillar configuration
    Using the get function
    Passing inline pillar data
    Managing users with SLS
    Using pillars in SaltStack states

9
  • SaltStack Config State Requirement and Declarations

  • ID compared to names
    State execution order
    Implicit orders
    Order declaration
    Requisite declarations
    Including other SLS files
    Altering states
    Using requisites and declarations to install and
    manage software

10
  • Using Jinja and YAML

  • SaltStack renderers
    YAML SaltStack configuration file format
    YAML lists, dictionaries, and block structures
    Jinja basics
    Using the Jinja renderer
    Grains with Jinja
    Jinja conditionals, lists, and loops
    YAML dictionary
    Jinja dictionary

Audience

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators will benefit from this course.

Language

English

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.3] course. You should also have the following understanding or knowledge: Good understanding of managing and working with various Linux and Windows operating systems Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments

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Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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