VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config: Deploy & Manage [V8.4] Training

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You will receive the advanced knowledge, abilities, and resources necessary to become proficient in setting up and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config during this three-day hands-on training course.

Category : VMware

Course Price : $2595 Per Participant

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Course Description

A potent software configuration management tool included in VMware vRealize® Automation is called SaltStack Config.

You can quickly establish safe, optimized software states using SaltStack Config and enforce them throughout your whole environment, including hybrid, virtualized, or public cloud systems.

The concept of configuration management is covered in this course, along with SaltStack Config's capabilities to install software, maintain system configurations, change systems instantly with scaled remote execution, and automatically fix configuration issues in deployed virtual applications.

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What you will learn

Use VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ to install SaltStack Config
Describe the architecture of SaltStack Config
Deploy Salt minions from VMware vRealize® Automation™
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
Create simple, human-readable infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure systems and software anywhere in your environment

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

Who should attend this course?

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators

Schedules

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You can also speak with a learning consultant by calling 800-961-0337.

Curriculum

Module 1: Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 5: Targeting Minions

Configuring minion attributes, grains, and custom grains

Creating minion target groups based on grains, globs, regular expressions, complex matching, and lists

Module 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

Module 7: SaltStack Config States

Overview of SaltStack Config states

State files management

State modules

Testing and verifying states

Package management

SLS files

Top file

Creating initial SLS files

Module 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

Module 9: SaltStack Config State Requisites 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

Module 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

Module 11: Managing Microsoft Windows Systems

Software management

Windows features and roles

Local group policies

Patching

Windows software management

Windows features management

Module 12: SaltStack Config Orchestration

SaltStack Config orchestration

SaltStack Config orchestration advantages

Executing orchestration

Orchestration state files

Orchestration calls

Requisites in orchestration

Module 13: Beacons and Reactors

Beacons

Beacons configuration

Beacon state modules

SaltStack Config event bus

Reactors

Reactors configuration

Reactors state Files

Orchestration with beacons and reactors

Course Details

Certification: YES
Enrolled: 2479
Duration: 3 Days

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