SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up The only sane and efficient way to manage a large numbers of servers—or ...

In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Mike Place about SaltStack, a fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data ...

Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, ...

Search doesn't turn up much. We have adopted SaltStack as our configuration management tool of choice- apparently because it does EVERYTHING and apparently because it has good Windows support. I don't ...

VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the ...

Based on the challenges Cloudflare encountered with SaltStack, it's worth noting that alternative configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef each bring different architectural trade ...

Researchers have identified a template injection technique against the open source SaltStack IT configuration and orchestration platform, as well as common misconfiguration issues, which could allow ...

I design and build ethical hacking capture-the-flag scenarios at a small security shop. Our clients operate the infrastructure (all ESXi/vCenter), and we deliver the OVAs (the game "content" and the ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

Attackers exploited two recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the SaltStack orchestration and configuration management framework to compromise at least two well-known open source technologies over the ...