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VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config: Deploy & Manage [V8.4] Training

This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in deploying and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config. SaltStack Config is a powerful software configuration management component available in VMware vRealize® Automation. With SaltStack Config you can easily define optimized, secure software states and enforce them across your entire environment, including virtualized, hybrid, or public cloud systems.
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Course Details

Duration

3 days

Prerequisites

  • Completed the VMware vRealize® Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.3] course.
  • Good understanding of managing and working with various Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments

Target Audience

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators

Skills Gained

  • Use VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ to install SaltStack Config
  • Describe the architecture of SaltStack Config
  • Deploy Salt minions from VMware vRealize® Automation™
  • Create simple, human-readable infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure systems and software anywhere in your environment
  • Configure roles and permissions for users and groups to manage and interact with SaltStack Config
  • Manage systems with Jinja and YAML code
  • Automatically enforce desired states across your entire IT footprint
  • Keep critical software up to date
  • Enact change immediately across your entire enterprise with fast, scalable remote execution
  • Use SaltStack Config orchestration
  • Create and manage reactors and beacons that enable self-healing configurations
Course Outline
  • SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture
    • Describe the purpose of SaltStack Config
    • Define vRealize Automation and its services
    • Define SaltStack SecOps
    • SaltStack Config deployment types
    • Components of SaltStack Config and their roles
  • Installing SaltStack Config
    • SaltStack Config installation from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
    • Accessing SaltStack Config console
    • Salt minion types
    • Installing Salt minion manually
    • Installing Salt minion using cloudConfig
    • Accepting minion keys
  • SaltStack Config Security
    • Overview of vRealize Automation roles
    • Directory service connections
    • Synchronizing with a directory service
    • Editing directory service connections
    • Deleting directory service connections
    • Creation and management of local users
    • Roles and permissions
    • Advanced permissions
  • Targeting Minions
    • Configuring minion attributes, grains, and custom grains
    • Creating minion target groups based on grains, globs, regular expressions, complex matching, and lists
  • Remote Execution and Job Management
    • Using modules, functions, and arguments
    • Generating documentation on available modules and functions
    • Creating, running, and scheduling jobs
    • AD HOC jobs
  • SaltStack Config States
    • Overview of SaltStack Config states
    • State files management
    • State modules
    • Testing and verifying states
    • Package management
    • SLS files
    • Top file
    • Creating initial SLS files
  • SaltStack Config Pillar Data
    • Pillar concepts
    • Pillar configuration
    • Using the get function
    • Passing inline pillar data
    • Managing users with SLS
    • Using pillars in SaltStack states
  • SaltStack Config State Requisites and Declarations
    • ID compared to names
    • State execution order
    • Implicit orders
    • Order declaration
    • Requisite declarations
    • Including other SLS files
    • Altering states
    • Using requisites and declarations to install and manage software
  • Using Jinja and YAML
    • SaltStack renderers
    • YAML SaltStack configuration file format
    • YAML lists, dictionaries, and block structures
    • Jinja basics
    • Using the Jinja renderer
    • Grains with Jinja
    • Jinja conditionals, lists, and loops
    • YAML dictionary
    • Jinja dictionary
  • Managing Microsoft Windows Systems
    • Software management
    • Windows features and roles
    • Local group policies
    • Patching
    • Windows software management
    • Windows features management
  • SaltStack Config Orchestration
    • SaltStack Config orchestration
    • SaltStack Config orchestration advantages
    • Executing orchestration
    • Orchestration state files
    • Orchestration calls
    • Requisites in orchestration
  • Beacons and Reactors
    • Beacons
    • Beacons configuration
    • Beacon state modules
    • SaltStack Config event bus
    • Reactors
    • Reactors configuration
    • Reactors state Files
    • Orchestration with beacons and reactors
  • Product Alignment
    • VMware vRealize Automation 8.4
    • VMware vRealize SaltStack Config 8.4