Control Windows with Salt

This long article explores Windows management with Salt. First, it shows you how to automatically install software to Windows, control Windows boxes behind NAT and firewall and remotely run arbitrary PowerShell commands on Windows. $ sudo salt ‘*’ pkg.install gedit,firefox,steam,vlc … Continue reading

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Pkg-File-Service – Control Daemons with Salt – Change SSH Server Port

You can control a huge number of daemons with a configuration management system. Package-file-service is the common pattern for this: install the software, replace a configuration file and finally restart the daemon to use the new configuration. This article shows … Continue reading

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022-1 – 5 op, uusi OPS – loppusyksy 2016

Hallitse palvelimiasi Pupetilla. Pupettia käyttävät esimerkiksi Google, Mozilla ja Wikipedia. Sillä on toteutettu myös US Government Security Baseline hallinnon Linux ja Windows -tietokoneisiin.

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Aikataulu – Linuxin keskitetty hallinta – ict4tn011-10 – loppusyksy 2016

Hallitse palvelimiasi ja työasemiasi Pupetilla. Kuvaile tavoitetila, ja anna Pupetin tehdä tarvittavat säädöt ja asetukset. Pupettia käyttävät mm. Google, Mozilla ja Wikipedia. USA:n valtio suojaa Windows- ja Linux-työasemansa Pupetilla (US Government Security Baseline).

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Salt Master-Minion with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Control Your Slaves over the Internet

Would you like to control many computers (slaves, minions) from one master computer? Salt-minions connect to master to retrieve instructions. Slaves then configure themselves to the target state: they install software, make settings and start daemons.

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