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SaltStack claims fast, scalable control: a master/minion model that handles remote execution across 100 minions in ~0.26–0.27s and manages tens of thousands of nodes; the project merges 150–300 PRs weekly with 50–250k lines churned and ~1,000 contributors. It runs agent or agentless via salt-ssh, provisions with Salt Cloud, and uses an event bus + reactor to trigger state changes (demoed by auto-running a state that shut the laptop). Transport work moves from ZeroMQ toward TCP and the raet UDP transport for flaky links.
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- 0:00Start
- 16:52salt cloud
- 20:05running the salt master in open mode
- 23:08map remote execution directly to the function signatures
- 23:30add a host to an existing entry
- 25:00write your own execution module
- 27:52declare custom grains in a configuration file
- 42:51add minions
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