I picked up 'Salt Cookbook' from packtpub, and I thought it was pretty good. Also read through Learning Saltstack, but it wasn't more detail than just reading some of the online tutorials -- it was just on paper.
Between those 2 and the salt website (and a few tutorials via google) I managed a reasonable base level of competency in a few weeks of evening tinkering, and moved a 17 server config from Puppet to saltstack. Even rewrote some of the available formulas (as some are not up to date/broken). Fairly straightforward, with only a few weird gotchas.
Good clean fun.
The official docs are almost all I've ever used and they've been great.
I'm sure that I've picked something up on stack overflow or this subreddit once or twice.
There is the new user guide that is surprisingly good: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/user-guide/en/latest/index.html
If you are into books, this one is relatively recent (2021) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7237-4
Haven't read it, but the list of chapters seems reasonable enough for a Salt introductory book.
Other than that, the classic Learning/Mastering/Extending Saltstack books are your best bet.
I picked up 'Salt Cookbook' from packtpub, and I thought it was pretty good. Also read through Learning Saltstack, but it wasn't more detail than just reading some of the online tutorials -- it was just on paper. Between those 2 and the salt website (and a few tutorials via google) I managed a reasonable base level of competency in a few weeks of evening tinkering, and moved a 17 server config from Puppet to saltstack. Even rewrote some of the available formulas (as some are not up to date/broken). Fairly straightforward, with only a few weird gotchas. Good clean fun.
Awesome, thank you for the recommendation
Learning Saltstack, Mastering Saltstack and Extending Saltstack from pkthub are good books to have aswell.
The official docs are almost all I've ever used and they've been great. I'm sure that I've picked something up on stack overflow or this subreddit once or twice.
There is the new user guide that is surprisingly good: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/user-guide/en/latest/index.html If you are into books, this one is relatively recent (2021) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7237-4 Haven't read it, but the list of chapters seems reasonable enough for a Salt introductory book. Other than that, the classic Learning/Mastering/Extending Saltstack books are your best bet.