Chapter 10. How Can I Get Involved?

In the previous chapter, you learned some best practices to secure your SaltStack infrastructure.

In this chapter, you're going to learn more about the Salt open source project and how you can get involved.

You'll learn about the following things:

  • How to create an account on GitHub
  • How to find issues that need to be fixed in Salt
  • How to clone the Salt repository and make changes to the code
  • Some basic Git commands
  • How to create a pull request
  • How to get involved on the community mailing list and IRC

Contributing code using GitHub

GitHub is a website created to make open source software development easier. Most of the open source projects on the Internet are hosted on GitHub. This includes the code for the Salt open source ...

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