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Salt is the world's fastest, most intelligent and scalable automationengine.
Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework todeploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Use Salt to automate commoninfrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of yourinfrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.
Salt has many possible uses, including configuration management, which involves:
- Managing operating system deployment and configuration.
- Installing and configuring software applications and services.
- Managing servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, web servers,network devices, and more.
- Ensuring consistent configuration and preventing configuration drift.
Salt is ideal for configuration management because it is pluggable,customizable, and plays well with many existing technologies. Salt enables youto deploy and manage applications that use any tech stack running on nearly anyoperating system,including different types of network devices such as switches and routers from avariety of vendors.
In addition to configuration management Salt can also:
- Automate and orchestrate routine IT processes, such as common required tasksfor scheduled server downtimes or upgrading operating systems or applications.
- Create self-aware, self-healing systems that can automatically respond tooutages, common administration problems, or other important events.
Salt powers VMware by Broadcom'sTanzu Salt(previously Aria Automation Config / vRealize Automation SaltStack Config / SaltStack Enterprise), and can be foundunder the hood of products from Juniper, Cisco, Cloudflare, Nutanix, SUSE, andTieto, to name a few.
The original sponsor of our community, SaltStack, was acquired by VMware in 2020.VMware was later acquired by Broadcom in 2023.The Salt Project remains an open source ecosystem that Broadcom supports andcontributes to. Broadcom ensures the code integrity and quality of the Saltmodules by acting as the official sponsor and manager of the Salt project. Manyof the core Salt Project contributors are also Broadcom employees. This teamcarefully reviews and enhances the Salt modules to ensure speed, quality, andsecurity.
Salt is tested and packaged to run on CentOS, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, MacOS,Windows, and more. Download Salt and get started now. Seesupported operating systemsfor more information.
To download and install Salt, see:
- The Salt install guide
- Salt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) - Where Salt
rpmpackages are officially stored and distributed. - Salt Project Repository: Linux (DEB) - Where Salt
debpackages are officially stored and distributed. - Salt Project Repository: GENERIC - Where Salt Windows, macOS, etc. (non-rpm, non-deb) packages are officially stored and distributed.
- Salt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) - Where Salt
Report bugs or problems using Salt by opening an issue:https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues
To join our community forum where you can exchange ideas, best practices,discuss technical support questions, and talk to project maintainers, join ourDiscord server:Salt Project Community Discord
Installation instructions, tutorials, in-depth API and module documentation:
Keep an eye on the Salt ProjectSecurity Announcementslanding page. Salt Project recommends subscribing to theSalt Project Security RSS feedto receive notification when new information is available regarding securityannouncements.
Other channels to receive security announcements include theSalt Community mailing listand theSalt Project Community Discord.
When reporting security vulnerabilities for Salt or other SaltStack projects,refer to theSECURITY.md file found in this repository.
Salt is built by the Salt Project community, which includes more than 3,000contributors working in roles just like yours. This well-known and trustedcommunity works together to improve the underlying technology and extend Salt bycreating a variety of execution and state modules to accomplish the most commontasks or solve the most important problems that people in your role are likelyto face.
If you want to help extend Salt or solve a problem with Salt, you can join ourcommunity and contribute today.
Please be sure to review ourCode of Conduct.Also, check out some of our community resources including:
There are lots of ways to get involved in our community. Every month, there arearound a dozen opportunities to meet with other contributors and the Salt Coreteam and collaborate in real time. The best way to keep track is by subscribingto theSalt Project Community Events Calendar on the mainhttps://saltproject.io website.
If you have additional questions, email us atsaltproject.pdl@broadcom.com or reach outdirectly to the Community Discord. We'd be glad to have you join our community!
Salt is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Pleasesee theLICENSE file for thefull text of the Apache license, followed by a full summary of the licensingused by external modules.
A complete list of attributions and dependencies can be found here:salt/DEPENDENCIES.md
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Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.