Salt belongs to a class of configuration management systems intended to make administrating a large number of machines easier. It does so by applying the same rules to different machines, making sure that any differences in their configuration are intentional.
It is written in Python and, more importantly, extensible in Python. For example, wherever a YAML file is used, Salt allows a Python file that defines a dictionary.
Salt adopts an open source model for its core code. The code can be cloned from the Salt source code repository. There are ...
