Chapter 4. Exploring Salt SSH
Salt introduced the powerful concept of using message queues as a communication-transport mechanism. There are times when the old tools just make sense. However, there's no reason not to give them a kick in the seat of their pants when necessary. This is why Salt SSH was created. In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- Using rosters
- Building dynamic rosters
- Understanding the salt-thin agent
- Using the raw SSH mode
Grappling with SSH
SSH is in fact based on concepts very different from the primary architecture of Salt. Salt was designed to communicate with large numbers of remote machines at once; SSH was designed to interact with only one at a time. Let's take a few minutes to examine some of the differences between ...
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