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Salt is the world's fastest, most intelligent and scalable automation engine.
Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Use Salt to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of your infrastructure 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 you to deploy and manage applications that use any tech stack running on nearly any operating system, including different types of network devices such as switches and routers from a variety of vendors.
In addition to configuration management Salt can also:
- Automate and orchestrate routine IT processes, such as common required tasks for scheduled server downtimes or upgrading operating systems or applications.
- Create self-aware, self-healing systems that can automatically respond to outages, common administration problems, or other important events.
Salt is distributed for most currently supported SUSE and openSUSE operating systems.
Execute the following commands to install Salt:
zypper ref
zypper install salt salt-master salt-minionReport bugs or problems using Salt by opening an issue: https://github.com/openSUSE/salt/issues
Installation instructions, tutorials, in-depth API and module documentation:
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For receiving security reports, see the openSUSE/SUSE Security Announce mailing list.
Keep an eye on the Salt Project Security Announcements landing page. Salt Project recommends subscribing to the Salt Project Security RSS feed to receive notification when new information is available regarding security announcements.
Salt is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for the full text of the Apache license, followed by a full summary of the licensing used by external modules.
A complete list of attributions and dependencies can be found here: salt/DEPENDENCIES.md