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VMware said Tuesday that it plans to acquire SaltStack, makers of event-driven automation software, to bolster its cloud portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. VMware ...

SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up The only sane and efficient way to manage a large numbers of servers—or ...

Researchers have identified a template injection technique against the open source SaltStack IT configuration and orchestration platform, as well as common misconfiguration issues, which could allow ...

Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, ...

Based on the challenges Cloudflare encountered with SaltStack, it's worth noting that alternative configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef each bring different architectural trade ...

A series of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack’s open source Salt remote task and configuration framework will let hackers breeze past authentication and authorisation safeguards to take over ...

VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the ...