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Salt 0.6.0 release notes
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The Salt remote execution manager has reached initial functionality! Salt is a
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management application which can be used to execute commands on remote sets of
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servers.
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The whole idea behind Salt is to create a system where a group of servers can
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be remotely controlled from a single master, not only can commands be executed
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on remote systems, but salt can also be used to gather information about your
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server environment.
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Unlike similar systems, like Func and MCollective, Salt is extremely simple to
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setup and use, the entire application is contained in a single package, and the
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master and minion daemons require no running dependencies in the way that Func
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requires Certmaster and MCollective requires activeMQ.
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Salt also manages authentication and encryption. Rather than using SSL for
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encryption, salt manages encryption on a payload level, so the data sent across
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the network is encrypted with fast AES encryption, and authentication uses RSA
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keys. This means that Salt is fast, secure, and very efficient.
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Messaging in Salt is executed with ZeroMQ, so the message passing interface is
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built into salt and does not require an external ZeroMQ server. This also adds
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speed to Salt since there is no additional bloat on the networking layer, and
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ZeroMQ has already proven itself as a very fast networking system.
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The remote execution in Salt is "Lazy Execution", in that once the command is
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sent the requesting network connection is closed. This makes it easier to
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detach the execution from the calling process on the master, it also means that
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replies are cached, so that information gathered from historic commands can be
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queried in the future.
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Salt also allows users to make execution modules in Python. Writers of these
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modules should also be pleased to know that they have access to the impressive
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information gathered from PuppetLabs' Facter application, making Salt module
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more flexible. In the future I hope to also allow Salt to group servers based
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on Facter information as well.
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All in all Salt is fast, efficient, and clean, can be used from a simple command
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line client or through an API, uses message queue technology to make network
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execution extremely fast, and encryption is handled in a very fast and
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efficient manner. Salt is also VERY easy to use and VERY easy to extend.
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You can find the source code for Salt on my GitHub page, I have also set up a
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few wiki pages explaining how to use and set up Salt. If you are using Arch
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Linux there is a package available in the Arch Linux AUR.
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GitHub page: |saltrepo|
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Wiki: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/wiki
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Arch Linux Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/salt-git/
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I am very open to contributions, for instance I need packages for more Linux
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distributions as well as BSD packages and testers.
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Give Salt a try, this is the initial release and is not a 1.0 quality release,
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but it has been working well for me! I am eager to get your feedback!
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