Beyond Open Source Configuration Management: Rapidly Building Any Cloud at Scale
summary
Salt combines a ZeroMQ bus, a master/minion agent model, and modules for Cobbler, Nova, Rundeck, Jenkins and many clouds to deliver 5 seconds across 1800 systems remote execution (vs 15 minutes with SSH), real-time monitoring via Redis and real-time JSON-serializable events, and a reactor/cloud system that boots and configures instances automatically. Deployments scale to 100,000+ nodes in practice, use salt-bootstrap and GitHub formulas for zero-touch installs, and support staged, validated rollouts.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:45Building modern infrastructure needs more...
- 5:07Beyond just config management
- 8:28Touch-free continuous deployment
- 12:09Cross communication
- 14:37CMDB data lives in real time
- 15:36or integrate with an existing DB
- 18:24React to Events
