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Seth House 02a3dab489 Moved the version string to the Salt module 
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Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way.

Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.

Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.

Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.

News

0.9.2 released!

Release announcement:

topics/releases/0.9.2

Download

The latest Salt is |version|:

https://github.com/downloads/thatch45/salt/salt-0.9.2.tar.gz

Additional packages can be downloaded from the download page:

topics/download

Getting Started

A number of resources are available to get going with Salt.

Quick Start

If you want to get set up quickly and try out Salt, follow the tutorial.

topics/tutorial

Salt in Depth

While using and setting up Salt is a simple task, the capabilities of Salt run much deeper.

Gaining a better understanding of how Salt works will allow you to get much more out of Salt.

Screencasts and Presentations

Presentation at SLLUG in May 2011 video | slides (PDF)

Configuration and CLI Usage

ref/configuration/index ref/cli/index

Extending Salt

Writing your own customizations on top of Salt

ref/index ref/modules/index ref/grains ref/returners/index ref/states/index ref/runners ref/renderers ref/python-api ref/file_server/index

  • Modules: Writing modules <ref/modules/index> | full list of modules <ref/modules/modules>
  • Grains: Grains <ref/grains>
  • Returners: Writing returners <ref/returners/index> | full list of returners <ref/returners/returners>
  • State enforcement: States <ref/states/index> | Renderers <ref/renderers>
  • Python API: Python API <ref/python-api>
  • File Server: File Server <ref/file_server/index>

Salt Network Topology

Salt can be extended beyond a simple master commanding minions, for more information read up on the peer and syndic interfaces.

ref/syndic ref/peer

Getting Involved

There are many ways to interact with the Salt community.

topics/community topics/releases/index

Indices, glossary and tables

  • genindex
  • modindex
  • search