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What is Salt?
Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Salt is used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of infrastructure are operating in a…
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What is Salt?
Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Salt is used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.
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What is Salt?
Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Salt is used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.
Salt is presented as ideal for configuration management because it is pluggable, customizable, and plays well with many existing technologies. Salt enables users to deploy and manage applications that use any tech stack running on nearly any operating system, including different types of network devices such as switches and routers from a variety of vendors.
Salt is presented as ideal for configuration management because it is pluggable, customizable, and plays well with many existing technologies. Salt enables users to deploy and manage applications that use any tech stack running on nearly any operating system, including different types of network devices such as switches and routers from a variety of vendors.
Developed at SaltStack, which was acquired by VMware in late 2020, Salt is still available open source and community supported, while the former SaltStack Enterprise and SaltStack SecOps solutions became part of the VMware vRealize Automation solution as the SaltStack Config software configuration management add-on for that solution.
Salt Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD |
| Mobile Application | No |
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SaltStack has proven to be an invaluable tool for managing complex IT infrastructures and automating critical infrastructure tasks. Users have reported using SaltStack to manage configurations on over 100 CentOS virtual machines, simplifying the setup process and efficiently configuring essential elements such as NTP, DNS, user accounts, and automounted NFS home drives. The ability to install base package sets for different machine types based on their respective groups has further streamlined the configuration process.
Additionally, SaltStack is being utilized in various environments, including integration lab environments for instructional workshops and cloud-based development projects. Its orchestration capabilities allow users to easily configure highly available architectures and automate server management tasks. Furthermore, SaltStack's extensive feature set in configuration management, orchestration, remote execution, and cloud management make it a preferred choice for managing large fleets of systems at scale.
Organizations across industries have found SaltStack to be an essential tool for their needs. Some companies have built custom deployment orchestrators on top of SaltStack to automate critical infrastructure across multiple VPCs in AWS, while others rely on it organization-wide for configuration management, continuous delivery, user management, package management, and data distribution. Overall, SaltStack's versatility and robust functionality make it an indispensable asset in managing complex IT environments efficiently and effectively.
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April 27, 2021
SaltStack - pain-free infrastructure-as-code
- Much faster turnaround in provisoning test environments
- Quicker rollout of services
March 04, 2020
SaltStack doesn't make me feel Salty.
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- It has allowed my team to be able to manage large scale systems.
- It has allowed us to have a central viewpoint on the health of our systems.
May 23, 2017
Spicing up Linux infrastructure management
- It is hard to measure since SaltStack is free and open-source software
- SaltStack makes it possible to manage a large server farm with only few staff members
May 01, 2017
Seasoned advice about SaltStack
- Combined orchestration and configuration management allows one or two engineers to manage all of the Hybris Sysadmin Workshop lab infrastructure for multiple concurrent workshops combined.
- SaltStack provides in one tool, configuration management which serves the functions of systems management, audit, and change management.
- Getting ROI from SaltStack or any DevOps tool requires a cultural ambassador to build and develop process requirements and DevOps architecture, and while this can have dramatic bottom line results, people often struggle to adapt, so implementation can be stilted by lack of leadership.
- DevOps in general should not be pursued as a way to recover operational costs on its own, but rather to use operational savings to subsidize increased quality. SaltStack requires infrastructure investments, and development investments, and time investments for additional testing cycles in the pipeline. The ROI it produces is enabling more, faster parallel development, without sacrificing the ability to maintain testing and quality, or to increase testing and quality while maintaining or reducing the cost of quality process. If you just want more for less and you're willing to ship broken product to get better short term bottom line: just ship broken product, skip the DevOps investment.
August 08, 2016
SaltStack is recommended!
- We manage two complex highly available self-healing (all infrastructure and systems) environments using SaltStack. Only one person is needed to run SaltStack. That is a HUGE return on investment.
- Building tooling on top of SaltStack has allowed us to share administrative abilities by role - e.g. employee X can deploy software Y. No need to call a sysadmin and etc.
- Recovery from problems, or time to stand-up new systems is now counted in minutes (usually under eight) rather than hours. This is a strategic advantage for rolling out new services.
August 05, 2016
Saltstack is complicated and beautiful - a rare combination
- With Saltstack helping to keep my environment managed and under control, I have gone from spending 30-40 hours per week in Ops and 0-10 in Dev, to spending less than 5 hours in Ops most weeks.
August 05, 2016
SaltStack is AMAZING!!
- SaltStack has reduced the time it takes to deploy new machines for us 10-fold.
- It is much easier for us to maintain compliance with industry standards with SaltStack.
- No negative impacts!
August 01, 2016
Why would you pick Salt over Ansible
- Engineering spends less time on Ops
- Engineering has more time to build features
- Server farm is more stable, which means better uptime and happier customer, as well as less pages for engineers.
July 29, 2016
Saltstack give your operation tasks a sweet taste
- Ops team gains a lot of time on repetitive tasks and can focus on improvement and automation
- There is no limit with Saltstack, a part of everything can be automated
- Using SaltStack + Buildbot, we increased our deployment rate up to several deployments a day.
- Devops engineers efficiency increased dramatically.
- As SaltStack produces predictable results and eliminates the need in monotonous manual actions - overall reliability of our IT infrastructure increased.
- Instead of wasting hours and even days debugging errors on some particular server - it's now easier to reinstall in completely with SaltStack.