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SaltStack Automation for Beginners is your practical, end-to-end guide to mastering modern infrastructure automation in 2025 and beyond. Whether you're running Linux servers, Windows fleets, cloud workloads, or Proxmox clusters, this book shows you how to build reliable, self-healing systems powered by SaltStack. Inside, you'll go hands-on with: Core Foundations - Salt Master, Minions, states, pillars, Jinja templates, and requisites. Automation & Orchestration - build GitOps pipelines, orchestrate multi-tier deployments, and enforce compliance at scale. Event-Driven Infrastructure - design beacons and reactors for service monitoring, automated remediation, and Slack alerts. Hybrid & Cloud Management - provision and manage resources across AWS, Azure, and Proxmox with salt-cloud. Windows + Linux Fleet Management - unify package installs, patches, and security across heterogeneous systems. Capstone Project - deploy a full production-grade stack with continuous delivery, self-healing services, and network compliance checks. What makes this book stand out? It's up-to-date with Salt 3006 LTS and 3007, filled with step-by-step labs, real-world YAML/Jinja code, and a complete end-to-end project that mirrors enterprise environments. Perfect for system administrators, DevOps engineers, SREs, and homelab builders, this guide will take you from beginner to confident practitioner. If you're ready to automate smarter, scale faster, and master SaltStack, this is the book you need.

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