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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
Puppet was working fine for our needs. We decided to make the switch after our operating system vendor decided to stop official support for SaltStack.
March 04, 2020
SaltStack doesn't make me feel Salty.
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- Puppet Enterprise (formerly Puppet Data Center Automation)
SaltStack is a newer product, so it learned some of the mistakes that Puppet made. It truly is a system that can respond to events as well as configure systems.
May 23, 2017
Spicing up Linux infrastructure management
May 01, 2017
Seasoned advice about SaltStack
I've used shell scripts over ssh, custom in-house deployment tools, Chef, and SaltStack. I've evaluated Ansible, but I was never happy with performance over SSH. Chef's loose configuration data model and lack of philosophy and conventions around use makes it difficult for a team to share responsibility for configuration code. Needing to use additional tools to do orchestration for cross-host/agent dependency relationships made me look for more. SaltStack, while not as mature when I first tried it, impressed me with its speed and elegant design.
August 08, 2016
SaltStack is recommended!
I have used the following:
CFEngine
Puppet
Chef (only a cursory usage after a one day course)
Ansible (cursory usage after reading a book on Ansible)
Chef is the closest competitor to SaltStack. It is slower though and requires a somewhat complicated installation.
Puppet is slow. The design requires the bulk of work to happen on the Puppet master. It does not scale well. It is built for 2005 servers, not cloud.
Ansible is ssh only by design. Orchestration is very difficult to achieve.
CFEngine
Puppet
Chef (only a cursory usage after a one day course)
Ansible (cursory usage after reading a book on Ansible)
Chef is the closest competitor to SaltStack. It is slower though and requires a somewhat complicated installation.
Puppet is slow. The design requires the bulk of work to happen on the Puppet master. It does not scale well. It is built for 2005 servers, not cloud.
Ansible is ssh only by design. Orchestration is very difficult to achieve.
August 05, 2016
Saltstack is complicated and beautiful - a rare combination
Chef and Puppet both require writing code, which I view as excessively involved for the task at hand. I have only needed to write pure python for a handful of Saltstack use cases - everything else has been configuration files.
Ansible, while elegant and simple, simply does not have the abstraction layer or the granularity that Saltstack does.
Cfengine has a reputation for complexity, and a relatively small community at this time.
Ansible, while elegant and simple, simply does not have the abstraction layer or the granularity that Saltstack does.
Cfengine has a reputation for complexity, and a relatively small community at this time.
August 05, 2016
SaltStack is AMAZING!!
- Puppet
We moved to SaltStack from Puppet about 3 years ago. Puppet just has too much of a learning curve and we inherited it from an old IT regime. We wanted something we could start fresh with. Our team has never looked back. SaltStack is so much easier for us to use and maintain.
August 01, 2016
Why would you pick Salt over Ansible
Ansible and Salt have emerged around the same time, and are pretty close.
Ansible pros:
- seems to have a better community these days.
- it is simpler to setup.
- DSL is considered to be simpler.
Salt pros:
- It is better for auto scaling environment.
- DSL might not be as intuitive, but it's well-designed, very powerful and consistent.
Ansible pros:
- seems to have a better community these days.
- it is simpler to setup.
- DSL is considered to be simpler.
Salt pros:
- It is better for auto scaling environment.
- DSL might not be as intuitive, but it's well-designed, very powerful and consistent.
July 29, 2016
Saltstack give your operation tasks a sweet taste
I looked at Chef and Ansible but it was a long time ago and I don't remember the pros and cons compared to SaltStack.
When I arrived at my company, Saltstack was already used in production so there has been no discussion about other deployment and automation solutions
When I arrived at my company, Saltstack was already used in production so there has been no discussion about other deployment and automation solutions
- Puppet Data Center Automation, Ansible and Chef
- Puppet - ugly and heavy, ruby-based, although has the best set of production-ready modules and can be a good choice for big enterprise.
- Chef - outdated, ruby-based.
- Ansible - slow due to ssh transport, but is the best alternative for SaltStack.