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Fast, scalable, event-driven automation for modern IT infrastructure
Salt is a Python‑based, event‑driven automation engine that configures, deploys, and manages servers, containers, network devices, and applications across all major operating systems.
Salt is an event‑driven automation platform built on Python, aimed at system administrators, DevOps engineers, and SREs who need to manage heterogeneous environments. It provides a unified framework to enforce desired state, prevent configuration drift, and orchestrate complex workflows across servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, and network gear.
With pluggable modules and a flexible state system, Salt can automate OS provisioning, software installation, and service orchestration in real time. It runs on CentOS, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, and many other platforms, and is distributed as RPM, DEB, and generic installers via Broadcom’s Artifactory. The community‑driven ecosystem, backed by Broadcom, offers extensive documentation, security advisories, and active support channels such as Discord, Reddit, and the GitHub issue tracker.
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Zero‑downtime OS patching
Automated rollout of patches across thousands of servers with automatic rollback on failure.
Network device configuration compliance
Consistently enforce switch and router configurations, detect drift, and remediate automatically.
Container fleet orchestration
Deploy and update container workloads across multiple hosts using Salt states.
Self‑healing web service
Detect service failures and automatically restart or replace instances to maintain availability.
Salt is written in Python and uses YAML for its state definitions.
Salt runs on CentOS, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, and many other platforms.
Packages are available as RPM, DEB, and generic installers via Broadcom's Artifactory repositories.
Broadcom contributes to the project and offers enterprise support through its Salt‑based products.
Community channels include Discord, Reddit, the mailing list, and the GitHub issue tracker.
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