SaltStack on Council of Elrondhttps://songkou.github.io/tags/saltstack/Recent content in SaltStack on Council of ElrondHugoenTue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0800Cheat_Sheethttps://songkou.github.io/posts/cheat-sheet/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0800https://songkou.github.io/posts/cheat-sheet/<p>Every verification and troubleshooting command from the lab posts on this blog — plus a few general-purpose Linux staples — collected in one place and organized <strong>by vendor</strong>, because that&rsquo;s how you reach for a cheat sheet: you&rsquo;re on a box, and you need to know what to run. Each subsection links back to the post it came from where one exists, and explains what each command shows and what a healthy result looks like — a command you can&rsquo;t interpret is just noise.</p>SaltStack_Guidehttps://songkou.github.io/posts/salt-guide/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0800https://songkou.github.io/posts/salt-guide/<p><em>Target platform: Debian / Ubuntu. Current LTS at time of writing: <strong>Salt 3008 LTS</strong>. Packages are now hosted on Broadcom&rsquo;s Artifactory (the old <code>repo.saltproject.io</code> has been retired).</em></p> <hr> <h2 id="1-what-salt-is">1. What Salt is</h2> <p>Salt (formerly SaltStack) is an open-source automation and infrastructure management framework used for:</p> <ul> <li>Configuration management</li> <li>Remote command execution</li> <li>Software deployment</li> <li>Server orchestration</li> <li>Compliance enforcement</li> <li>Infrastructure automation</li> <li>Network device automation</li> </ul> <p>It runs in two common modes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Master / minion (agent) mode</strong> — a central <code>salt-master</code> sends commands to many <code>salt-minion</code> agents over an encrypted ZeroMQ message bus. This is the classic, scalable setup:</li> </ul> <p><img src="https://songkou.github.io/posts/salt-guide/master-minion-topology.svg" alt="Salt master/minion architecture: one Salt Master (control server) connected over ZeroMQ TCP 4505/4506 to three minions - two Linux and one Windows; commands and states flow down, results and grains flow up"></p>