saltstack/salt
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 6
- age_days: 5673
- days_rel: 39
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 40
Adoption not part of the score
15637 stars · 5611 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Salt is a Python-based, event-driven automation framework for deploying, configuring, and managing IT infrastructure at scale using a master-minion architecture. It provides configuration management, remote execution, orchestration, and cloud provisioning across servers, VMs, containers, and network devices.
Use cases
- manage configuration across hundreds of servers
- prevent configuration drift on my fleet
- remotely execute commands on many machines at once
- automate OS and application upgrades
- provision VMs on cloud providers
- build self-healing infrastructure that reacts to events
- manage network device configurations
- enforce desired state with declarative Salt states
When to choose
- you need scalable, event-driven configuration management across mixed operating systems
- you want remote execution and orchestration in one tool
- you manage heterogeneous infrastructure including network devices and cloud VMs
- you need agent-based automation with fast ZeroMQ transport
When to avoid
- you only need simple ad-hoc scripting on a handful of machines
- you prefer agentless SSH-based tooling like Ansible
- you want a lightweight declarative-only tool without an event bus
- your team cannot operate a master-minion architecture
Facets
framework · maturity stable
configuration-management infrastructure-as-code deployment workflow-automation cli infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing self-hosted iot windows python cross-platform cli salt master-minion zeromq event-driven remote-execution cloud-provisioning orchestration state-management devops automation linux macos
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/saltstack/salt · fetched 2026-08-28 · ee4d737e8f2d
- homepage: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79057ebab603
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/configure-master-minion.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2ee04231e657
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/start-salt-services.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4c17c674593d
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/overview.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 94585dee015b
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/quickstart.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 33bc9a22244f
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/before-you-start/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7bf98de029d8
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/install-by-operating-system/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6317682a27c4
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/bootstrap.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3a59a970e248
- site_page: https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/other-install-types/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5f1ec9d3b9b8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| saltstack/salt | main | 98 |
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