What you need for this book

While this book covers a lot of ground, the focus is on Salt. It is recommended that you use the latest version of Salt available to you, though most of the information is also relevant to older versions.

A number of other products and services are mentioned in this book and its examples. While the examples will be useful with those products and services, they are designed to still be generic enough to demonstrate the intended information without requiring the purchase or installation of or subscription to third-party entities.

Any hardware or platform that can support Salt may be used for the examples in this book that pertain to minion operations. The Salt master is not yet supported in a Windows environment, so any ...

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