SaltStack

Salt，,一种全新的基础设施管理方式，部署轻松，在几分钟内可运行起来，扩展性好，很容易管理上万台服务器，速度够快，服务器之间秒级通讯。

salt底层采用动态的连接总线, 使其可以用于编配, 远程执行, 配置管理等等.

Get Started

The Get Started Guide shows you how to:

  • Install and configure SaltStack
  • Remotely execute commands across all managed systems
  • Design, develop, and deploy system configurations

If you just want to get Salt installed and start using it, Salt in 10 minutes gets you up and running quickly.

Install Salt

Latest Stable Release: Salt 2015.8.7 Release Notes

以下链接的安装文档，描述了在各个平台上如何获得安装包及对应安装细节：

Salt Bootstrap项目，可以从以下的版本库找到，是一个能在多个平台上自动正确安装的独立Shell脚本，

Demo Environments

You can download one of the following Vagrant projects to quickly set up a Salt demo environment:

Example Formulas

A Github repo that contains a number of community-maintained formulas is available at https://github.com/saltstack-formulas. Contributions are welcome!

A Github repo that contains formulas to install a number of Windows applications is available at https://github.com/saltstack/salt-winrepo-ng. Note that Salt makes this repo available to your Windows minions, and contributions are welcome!

Mailing List

Join the salt-users mailing list. It is the best place to ask questions about Salt and see whats going on with Salt development! The Salt mailing list is hosted by Google Groups. It is open to new members.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-users

There is also a low-traffic list used to announce new releases called salt-announce

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-announce

IRC

The #salt IRC channel is hosted on the popular Freenode network. You can use the Freenode webchat client right from your browser.

Logs of the IRC channel activity are being collected courtesy of Moritz Lenz.

If you wish to discuss the development of Salt itself join us in #salt-devel.

Follow on GitHub

The Salt code is developed via GitHub. Follow Salt for constant updates on what is happening in Salt development:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Hack the Source

If you want to get involved with the development of source code or the documentation efforts, please review the Developing Salt Tutorial.