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Install Salt
SaltStack provides installation packages for popular platforms at repo.saltstack.com
Install Salt
Remote Execution
Running commands on remote systems is the core function of Salt. Salt can execute commands across thousands of systems in seconds.
Configuration Management
Salt contains a robust and flexible configuration management framework that allows effortless, simultaneous configuration of tens of thousands of systems.
Event-Driven Infrastructure
Salt is built around an event infrastructure that can drive reactive provisioning, configuration, and management across all systems in your infrastructure.
Salt Essentials
Learn about the fundamental components and concepts that you need to understand to use Salt.
More Resources
Salt Cloud
Provision systems on cloud hosts and immediately bring them under management.
- Tutorial (coming soon)
- Using Salt Cloud
Agentless Salt
Run commands and states directly over SSH without installing an agent.
Command-Line Reference
Learn how to use the Salt command-line interfaces to manage your infrastructure.
All CommandsModule Reference
Salt is seriously extensible, and modules are available to customize nearly every component in Salt.
All ModulesConfiguring Salt
Learn how to configure user access, serve files, view and store job results, and more.
- Configuring the Salt Master
- Configuring the Salt Minion
- Configuration file examples
- Minion Blackout Configuration
- Access Control System
- Job Management
- Managing the Job Cache
- Storing Job Results in an External System
- Logging
- Salt File Server
- Git Fileserver Backend Walkthrough
- MinionFS Backend Walkthrough
- Salt Package Manager
- Storing Data in Other Databases
- Running as an Unprivileged User
- Using cron with Salt
- Hardening Salt
- Security disclosure policy
- Salt Transport
- Master Tops System
- Returners
- Renderers
Community
Featured Blogs & Tutorials
| SaltStack Terminology & Concepts | Six-part series on managing development environments with SaltStack. |
| Salt Commands Cheatsheet | List of common Salt commands. |
| Software Deployment with SaltStack | Two-part series on deploying software using SaltStack. |
| Creating an Event-Driven Infrastructure with Salt Reactor | Introduction to Salt Reactor. |
| How to Auto-Scale Your Cloud with SaltStack | Autoscaling EC2 using the Salt Reactor. |
| Scaling Zulily’s Infrastructure in a Pinch, with Salt | Overview of Zulily’s SaltStack implementation. |
Salt Books
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Getting Started with SaltStack
A practical introduction to using the SaltStack Configuration Management and Remote Execution Tool. |
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Learning SaltStack
Learn how to manage your infrastructure by utilizing the power of SaltStack. |
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Mastering SaltStack
Take charge of SaltStack to automate and configure enterprise-grade environments. |
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Salt Cookbook
Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt. |
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Salt Essentials
Get a complete introduction to Salt, the widely used Python-based configuration management and remote execution tool. |
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SaltStack for DevOps
Extremely fast and simple IT automation and configuration management. |
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Network Automation at Scale
Network Automation at Scale with SaltStack. |
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Extending SaltStack
Extend the power of your infrastructure and applications with Salt modules. |
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Learning Salt Video Course
Build reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructures with Salt |
