Configuration Management Course is Finished

My students have created many interesting projects on configuration management course. The feedback was excellent, 4.6 out of 5. The most common feedback (mode) was 5 out of 5. Thank you! Jussi Isosompppi controlled 2071 slave computers with Salt.

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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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Tommi's 639 Puppet Slaves

My student Tommi tested Puppet with 639 slaves. Tommi is running some 20 physical computers with about 30 virtual computers each. Tatu has 263 slaves – on a single physical machine with a huge swap file. Who will get 640 … Continue reading

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So Many Slaves: 455 Docker, 100 VirtualBox, 65 physical workstations, 50 VPS

Nikolai has 455 slaves in Docker containers. Joona has 100 slaves in VirtualBox, Joonas and Matilda have 60 slaves, Heikki has 21. This an ongoing competition for the students of my configuration management courses.

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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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