Implementing Reactors and Beacons

Abstract

You have now progressed to the next level of Salt administration, having conquered configuration management, the key to your IT estate management. The next level is orchestration, where we can automate even more and become proactive and less reactive. We will begin by learning to view the event bus and the activity, which will be surprisingly minimal. Being able to view events helps us debug Salt, giving us another alternative view from under the hood of the Salt operation. As a simple next step, we will learn the schedule activity on our Salt Minions before moving on to the real subject we want for this chapter: reactors and beacons.