Quick Fix for Useless Salt Warning – Add "file_ignore_glob: []" to /etc/salt/master

Some versions of Salt give you a useless warning on every run. The problem is easy to fix.

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Salt Quickstart – Salt Stack Master and Slave on Ubuntu Linux

You can control a thousand computers with Salt. And this is how you install Salt. Slaves, the controlled computers, can be anywhere: behind an NAT, behind a firewall, on an unknown address. And still you can control them. Only the … Continue reading

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022 4-ti 5-ke 5 – loppukevät 2018 5p

Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). In plain text (infrastructure as code, versionable). My current research area is configuration management systems: I gave … Continue reading

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022-3 – 5 op, uusi OPS – loppusyksy 2017 p5

Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Use Puppet, the tool used by US Gov (security baseline), Mozilla, Google (laptops and desktops) and Wikipedia. Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). … Continue reading

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Free SSL Certs, 50 Salt Slaves, 5 USD Raspberry Pi, Free Home Automation

Get free SSL cert for your business. Deploy and configure 50 servers to DigitalOcean. Buy RaspBerry Pi Zero for 5 USD (*actual price may vary). Automate your home. Read Ashkan’s thesis while he writes it.

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Install the Latest Salt Stack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Salt Stack is a configuration management system. It allows you to control a big number of computers easily. To get the latest features, you can install the latest stable Salt Stack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

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