Chapter 8. Adding External File Servers
Salt Master normally keeps its resources locally on the machine that hosts it. This involves, among other things, files that are served to Minions. The file server loader allows you to use an external resource to store those files, and treat them as if they are local to the Master. In this chapter, we'll discuss:
- Understanding how Salt uses files
- Abstracting external sources to deliver files to Salt
- Using Salt's cache system
- Troubleshooting external file servers
How Salt uses files
There are two ways that Salt's built-in file server uses files when communicating with Minions. They can be served whole and intact, or they can be processed by a templating engine, using a renderer module as discussed in Chapter 5 ...
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