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@ -12,24 +12,6 @@ and fast enough to communicate with those servers in *seconds*.
Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used
for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.
.. seealso:: Other Documentation
Download an offline copy of the latest Salt documentation:
* `PDF`_
* `ePub`_
See documentation for past Salt releases at http://salt.readthedocs.org.
Download offline copies on the `ReadTheDocs download page`_.
Watch announcements, demonstrations, and video tutorials on the `SaltStack
YouTube channel`_.
.. _`PDF`: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/salt/latest/salt.pdf
.. _`ePub`: https://media.readthedocs.org/epub/salt/latest/salt.epub
.. _`ReadTheDocs download page`: https://readthedocs.org/projects/salt/downloads/
.. _`SaltStack YouTube channel`: http://www.youtube.com/saltstack
Download
========
@ -37,28 +19,38 @@ Salt source releases are available for download via the following PyPI link:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt
The installation document, found in the following link, outlines where to
The installation document, found in the following link, outlines where to
obtain packages and installation specifics for platforms:
:doc:`Installation </topics/installation/index>`
The Salt Bootstrap project, found in the following repository, is a single
The Salt Bootstrap project, found in the following repository, is a single
shell script, which automates the install correctly on multiple platforms:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Getting Started
Get Started
===============
This walkthrough helps individuals to get started quickly and gain a
A new `Get Started Guide <http://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/>`_ walks you
through the basics of getting SaltStack up and running. You'll learn how to:
* Install and configure SaltStack
* Remotely execute commands across all managed systems
* Design, develop, and deploy system configurations
Tutorials
=========
This walkthrough is an additional tutorial to help you get started quickly and gain a
foundational knowledge of Salt:
:doc:`Official Salt Walkthrough</topics/tutorials/walkthrough>`
:doc:`Official Salt Walkthrough </topics/tutorials/walkthrough>`
The following getting started tutorials are also available:
The following getting started tutorials are also available:
States - Configuration Management with Salt:
- :doc:`Getting Started with States<topics/tutorials/starting_states>`
- :doc:`Getting Started with States <topics/tutorials/starting_states>`
- :doc:`Basic config management <topics/tutorials/states_pt1>`
- :doc:`Less basic config management <topics/tutorials/states_pt2>`
- :doc:`Advanced techniques <topics/tutorials/states_pt3>`
@ -74,7 +66,7 @@ Salt in depth
=============
While setting up, and using, Salt is a simple task, its capabilities run much
deeper. These documents provide a greater understanding of how Salt
deeper. These documents provide a greater understanding of how Salt
empowers infrastructure management.
Remote execution
@ -97,12 +89,12 @@ modules and returners, which are two key elements of remote execution.
**Returners**
Salt returners allow saving minion responses in various datastores, or
to various locations, in addition to displaying the responses at the CLI.
Returners can be used to extend Salt to communicate with new, or custom,
to various locations, in addition to displaying the responses at the CLI.
Returners can be used to extend Salt to communicate with new, or custom,
interfaces and to support new databases.
:doc:`Full list of returners </ref/returners/all/index>`
Contains: list of returner modules used to store minion responses
Contains: list of returner modules used to store minion responses
in Redis, Mongo, Cassandra, SQL, and others.
:doc:`Writing returners <ref/returners/index>`
@ -143,9 +135,9 @@ Configuration management
------------------------
Salt contains a robust and flexible configuration management framework, which
is built on the remote execution core. This framework executes on the minions,
is built on the remote execution core. This framework executes on the minions,
allowing effortless, simultaneous configuration of tens of thousands of hosts,
by rendering language specific state files. The following links provide
by rendering language specific state files. The following links provide
resources to learn more about state and renderers.
**States**
@ -167,24 +159,24 @@ resources to learn more about state and renderers.
configuration format that states represent.
:doc:`Writing states <ref/states/writing>`
Contains: a guide on how to write Salt state modules, easily extending
Contains: a guide on how to write Salt state modules, easily extending
Salt to directly manage more software.
**Renderers**
Renderers use state configuration files written in a variety of languages,
templating engines, or files. Salt's configuration management system is,
templating engines, or files. Salt's configuration management system is,
under the hood, language agnostic.
:doc:`Full list of renderers <ref/renderers/all/index>`
Contains: a list of renderers.
Contains: a list of renderers.
YAML is one choice, but many systems are available, from
alternative templating engines to the PyDSL language for rendering
sls formulas.
:doc:`Renderers <ref/renderers/index>`
Contains: more information about renderers. Salt states are only
concerned with the ultimate highstate data structure, not how the
data structure was created.
concerned with the ultimate highstate data structure, not how the
data structure was created.
Miscellaneous topics
--------------------
@ -206,7 +198,7 @@ The following links explore various Salt topics in depth.
:doc:`Peer Communication <ref/peer>`
Allow minions to communicate among themselves. For example, configure
one minion by querying live data from all the others.
one minion by querying live data from all the others.
:doc:`Reactor System <topics/reactor/index>`
The reactor system allows for Salt to create a self aware environment
@ -233,7 +225,7 @@ The following links explore various Salt topics in depth.
unable to run a salt-minion.
:ref:`Python API interface <python-api>`
The Python API allows the developer to use Salt locally from scripts and
The Python API allows the developer to use Salt locally from scripts and
programs easily via ``import salt``.
:ref:`External API interfaces <netapi-introduction>`

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@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ Release notes
See the :doc:`version numbers</topics/releases/version_numbers>` page for more
information about the version numbering scheme.
Latest Stable Release
Latest Branch Release
=====================
.. releasestree::
:maxdepth: 1
2015.5.0
2014.7.6
Previous Releases
=================
@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Previous Releases
:maxdepth: 1
:glob:
2015.5.*
2014.7.*
2014.1.*
0.*