Part III
Configuring Remote Machines

Author Note

salt-ssh. Running arbitrary commands remotely. Running configurations remotely.

Configuring a local machine allowed us to focus on all Salt’s core configuration management functionality. This can be useful but most organisations use more than one server and those servers are often configured to work together. Configuring multiple servers as individual servers is possible but problematic. Salt provides salt-ssh for configuring remote machines using your enterprise SSH infrastructure.