Salt (software)
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Salt (sometimes referred to as SaltStack) is a Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. Supporting the "infrastructure as code" approach to data center system and network deployment and management, configuration automation, SecOps orchestration, vulnerability remediation, and hybrid cloud control.
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Developer(s) | Thomas S Hatch |
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Initial release | 19 March 2011 |
Stable release | 3005.1
/ 4 October 2022[1] |
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Written in | Python |
Operating system | Unix-like, OS X, Microsoft Windows |
Type | Configuration management and Infrastructure as Code |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | saltproject![]() |