1. Predictive Orchestration using
SaltStack

2. About me
• Platform Engineer (Contractor) @ Bloom
Health
• 10 years of experience in Software
Engineering
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Level
• @psaravanakumar /
saravana.kumar@meygam.io

3. Predictive Orchestration
• SaltStack Reactor can take this one step
further through the intelligent consumption of
machine and human-generated events with an
appropriate reaction.

4. Salt Components Overview
• Salt Master
• Salt Minions
• Execution Modules
• Runners
• Reactor
• Salt-api

9. Salt Reactor System
Event Bus
OUT
IN
Reactor
salt-api
Master
Minions
/hook/
Runner
Execution
Modules

10. DEMO
• Salt-api
• Reactor
• Runner
• Execution Modules
• Orchestration
• Use Cases:
– Solving Pager Duty Alerts
– Reacting to AWS Cloud watch metrics

11. In this case it is a good thing to let the machines
take over…Skynet done right.
http://saltstack.com/saltstack-predictive-orchestration-for-the-event-driven-infrastructure/

12. Securing the Webhook
• Use SSL
• Pass a secret key as part of the post/url
• Allow traffic only from known sources

13. Questions

14. References
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/overview.ht
ml
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/reactor/
• http://saltstack.com/saltstack-predictive-orchestration-
for-the-event-driven-infrastructure/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBYqo4lhwV4
• Source code:
– https://github.com/meygam/salt-vagrant