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What do you like best about SaltStack?

supports all OS flavors and works well for the deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Little complex but does the job well. People can use seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I don't use much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using where MDM doesn't help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SaltStack Overview

What is SaltStack?

SaltStack event-driven automation software helps IT organizations manage and secure cloud infrastructure at massive scale while automating efficient orchestration of enterprise DevOps workflows.

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Product Description

Systems and configuration management software


Seller Details
Seller
SaltStack
Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Lehi, UT
Twitter
@SaltStack
40 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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7 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent SaltStack Reviews

Gaurav S.
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Gaurav S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A valuable tool for automation and configuration management"
1) Covers a lot of use cases for management for state management, config management, service auto-healing etc 2) Based on python so for users wi...
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3.5 out of 5
"Slat is pretty good tool for all the flavour of OS to manage."
supports all OS flavors and works well for the deployment.
Manoj K.
MK
Manoj K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best infra management tool"
Minion domain connection and DNS auto config works very well, it has capablity to configure almost anything in infra.
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SaltStack Enterprise provides role-based access control to extend or limit the power of SaltStack automation to the correct people on the team.
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Gaurav S.
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What do you like best about SaltStack?

1) Covers a lot of use cases for management for state management, config management, service auto-healing etc

2) Based on python so for users with a good understanding of python can add their own custom modules for use cases that they see are new.

3) Support multi-master HA

4) Enterprise provides additional features like user friendly GUI, management API etc

5) It's an agent less system management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Even with all the community support and managed service, the learning curve for this tool is high. The configuration setup and documentation are not easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cost management

Create internal/operational efficiencies

Improve compliance & risk management

Venafi cert management without the hassle and risks of requesting and installing keys and certificates with native SaltStack integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SaltStack?

It's a great way to manage hundreds of computers all at once. The configuration management states and modules can accomplish so much and once you get the hang of it you can use things like beacons and reactors to make your infrastrucutre preventative rather than responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Sometimes it can be hard to find good examples of states or modules being used in the documentation. There can be challenges getting it to play nice with Windows minions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving the problem of deploying apps to multiple bare-metal machines. We have seen the benefits of time efficiency improvements. Additionally, being able to store our cloud and on-prem infrastructure as code is a huge boon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Govind K.
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What do you like best about SaltStack?

The best thing about this product is you can design and implement the infrastructure very quickly and deploy it in very minimal time. Using the SaltStack is very easy and available documents for this product are very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Nothing much to dislike, sometimes it is hard to debug the root cause of the error. But the rest of all the things are as per expectation. Not anything to dislike as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SaltStack:

do use it once to feel the difference Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Design and development of IT infrastructure in the organization in very minimal support of documents available for the product. Yes, by using this product we could able to save most of our time and resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manoj K.
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What do you like best about SaltStack?

Minion domain connection and DNS auto config works very well, it has capablity to configure almost anything in infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Very less forums sites available for SaltStack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using SaltStack for managing our infrastructure and cloud instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tarun G.
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What do you like best about SaltStack?

Its a python based open source software. Its compatiblity and user interface i like the most. Works on all operating system. Except ios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

I dont discovered any flaw but something it responds slowly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

By using it i will make different functions by just typing one commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SaltStack?

It provides the best remote execution in different fields Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

I didn't find anything such a feature. All good till now. SaltStack is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is saving much time and assets. I can use many functions with just one command. The best feature is the framework which helps us work with thousands of computers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SaltStack?

Easy to configure is what i like the best in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

no cons as of now ! i like the high speed and effective automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SaltStack:

Nothing as of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefits are the event driven automation, easy configuration etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SaltStack?

Saltstack is easy to manage, the scalability is excellent, and it matches others in the industry. Pricing is fair enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

Ui needs improvement is slightly tricky to set up and requires more documentation support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SaltStack:

IT is always good to try new things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is my buddy for configuration management for POC's currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SaltStack?

We can easily design our infrastructure and the deployment architecture of our system. All can control via a YAML file, and it's straightforward. Documentation is well written, and you can find all the details from that. And there's a community based on this product, so it's updating quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

All is good with this product. I can't see any issues with this product. Easy to handle and easy to use.Fewer bugs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SaltStack:

Highly recommending! Good product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used this product mainly to handle our deployments. And also very easy to access all the nodes inside our system from one place. And we can set up the monitoring dashboards very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Megha S.
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What do you like best about SaltStack?

It is python based and for it automation and task execution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SaltStack?

It's heavier with software tools and the messaging data bus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SaltStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Use saltstack to manage ~400 remote nodes and ~35 server nodes .

Handles configuration management and to o deployment of application.

Rapid updates for security vulnerabilities and targeted data acquisition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.