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02. About SaltStack
Khelil Sator edited this page Jun 25, 2017
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SaltStack is an event driven infrastructure tool (like StackStorm), with good network automation capabilities.
- SaltStack is the company.
- Salt Open is the open source tool I am using in this repo.
- SaltStack Enterprise is the software they sell and support.
Salt is a remote execution tool and configuration management system:
- remote execution: run commands on various machines in parallel with a flexible targeting system (salt execution modules)
- configuration management: establishes a client-server model to bring infrastructure components in line with a given policy (salt state modules in sls files)
Written in Python
open source (https://github.com/saltstack).
https://saltstack.com/
Salt competes primarily with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and StackStorm.
ansible vs saltstack vs stackstorm: https://medium.com/@anthonypjshaw/ansible-v-s-salt-saltstack-v-s-stackstorm-3d8f57149368
- salt master.
- salt minions (agents)
- salt proxies (enables master to control devices without minion). Examples include:
- devices that could run a minion, but for whatver reasons, don't.
- devices that cannot run a standard salt-minion
- devices with limited CPU or memory
- IoT
- proprietary OS