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What is Salt?

Salt (often referred to as SaltStack) is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool. It's used for automating infrastructure management tasks, such as software deployment, system configuration, and task orchestration across a network of servers. It uses a push-based or pull-based model for executing commands and managing configurations.

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What other technologies are related to Salt?

Salt Competitor Technologies

Puppet

Puppet is a configuration management tool that competes directly with Salt for automating infrastructure.

mentioned alongside Salt in 8% (8.8k) of relevant job posts

Chef

Chef is another configuration management tool that provides similar functionality to Salt for automating infrastructure and application deployment.

mentioned alongside Salt in 8% (7.7k) of relevant job posts

Ansible

Ansible is a configuration management and automation tool that is a direct competitor to Salt.

mentioned alongside Salt in 3% (11.7k) of relevant job posts

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code service that competes with Salt for provisioning and managing AWS resources.

mentioned alongside Salt in 2% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

Code Deploy

AWS CodeDeploy automates code deployments, thus competing with Salt functionality.

mentioned alongside Salt in 13% (205) of relevant job posts

CFEngine

CFEngine is a configuration management system that competes with SaltStack in the realm of infrastructure automation.

mentioned alongside Salt in 15% (182) of relevant job posts

Salt Complementary Technologies

Terraform

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool. While it can configure infrastructure, it's often used alongside Salt for application deployment and configuration management within that infrastructure.

mentioned alongside Salt in 1% (6.2k) of relevant job posts

Kubernetes

Salt can be used to manage and configure Kubernetes clusters and deploy applications into them.

mentioned alongside Salt in 1% (7.3k) of relevant job posts

pdsh

pdsh is a parallel distributed shell system that can be used in conjunction with Salt.

mentioned alongside Salt in 72% (73) of relevant job posts