high availability

Today's article is an item I covered briefly during my presentation at SaltConf 2014 (which was a pretty awesome conference by the way). One of the lesser known features of SaltStack is the ability to configure multiple master servers. Having an additional master server allows for some extra redundancy as well as capacity for large implementations. While I covered the benefits of having an additional master server in my presentation I didn't cover in full detail how to set this up, today I will cover the details of configuring multiple salt masters....

Over the past few years the usage of NOSQL databases has grown quite a bit. Part of this popularity is due to the scalability and performance seen with NOSQL solutions, one of those highly performant databases is Redis. Redis is an highly popular open source in memory key - value data store that is currently in use at and highly praised by tech companies such as Twitter, Stack Exchange and Github....