Salt Stack for Play (How to safely manage and share your config files)

Our modern computing environment is spread among multiple machines, presenting the need of synchronizing configuration preferences across all our systems. It is also important to share configuration files with friends and co-workers.

Doing this safely and securely is easier said than done:

- Managing archives on a central server is tedious, slow, and vulnerable to forgetfulness
- Shell scripts may automate this process, but entail a high maintenance cost
- Configuration files often contain sensitive information which must remain private

Fortunately, Salt Stack gives us a better way! Salt Stack is "The most intelligent, powerful and flexible open source software for remote execution, configuration automation, cloud control and event-driven orchestration". It is a robust and proven tool for supporting configuration automation in projects of all sizes.

If you are new to configuration management it can be difficult to know where to start. That is where this talk comes in! Learn the basics of Salt Stack by using it to manage configuration files without accidentally leaking passwords and private keys to the world. You will gain valuable, marketable configuration management skills and enjoy the luxury of consistent configurations in all your workspaces. [111]

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