Salt
Event-driven automation platform for infrastructure management and configuration at scale
- Vendor
- Broadcom
- Also known as
- salt
What is Salt?
A Python-based automation tool and framework designed to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT infrastructure systems, supporting multiple operating systems and maintaining consistent desired state across infrastructure components.
Salt pricing
We don't have Salt's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Salt does
The capabilities that matter for configuration management tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture
- Agent-based
- Push / pull model
- Pull
- Config language
- -
- Masterless mode
- -
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- Idempotent
- -
- Desired-state declarative
- ✓
- Content registry
- -
- Windows support
- ✓
- Cloud provisioning
- ✓
- Policy / compliance
- -
- Enterprise edition
- ✗
- Open-source core
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
- Self-hosted
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Bitnami
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 67 (2 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Salt FAQ
Common questions about Salt, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Salt?
An open-source framework that allows teams to automate and manage thousands of systems from a central control plane. It provides remote command execution, configuration management, and infrastructure orchestration capabilities through a master-minion agent architecture. It is indexed under Configuration Management Tools.
Source: https://saltproject.io
Is Salt free to use?
Salt is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://saltproject.io
What platforms does Salt support?
Salt supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://saltproject.io
Can Salt be self-hosted?
Yes. Salt can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://saltproject.io
Is Salt open source?
Yes. Salt is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Salt alternatives
Other configuration management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- HCL BigFixAI-powered platform for automated discovery, patching, and compliance management across diverse endpoints and environmentsmedium · 73%
- BOSHAutomation platform for deploying and managing distributed systems across cloud infrastructurehigh · 79%
- Ansiblemedium · 67%
- Landscapemedium · 72%
- SaltStackDistributed infrastructure automation and command execution platformmedium · 71%
- NixOS / NixA declarative package manager and Linux distribution using functional programming principlesmedium · 52%
Compare Salt
Side by side against other configuration management tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Salt, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package downloads | 57 | 0.17 | 9.8 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 63 | 0.12 | 7.6 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 97 | 0.07 | 6.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.08 | 5.6 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 44 | 0.08 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Stars | 79 | 0.03 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Security score | 48 | 0.05 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.05 | 0.5 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 67% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Model: pull · Hosting: self · Architecture: agent · Desired state: Yes · Windows support: Yes · Open source core: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
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