5 Things to Know About Salt Cloud Management

You will be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Salt project. The company behind the project, Salt Stack, incorporated only a year ago, and Salt is now a rapidly growing open source systems and configuration management tool. Although Salt Stack is a new name in the configuration management tools pool, the company has already made a big splash. Salt Stack was named Black Duck Software’s Open Source Rookie of the Year for 2011, one of four “Cool Vendors in DevOps” by Gartner in April 2013, and at its Structure 2013 event in June, GigaOM selected Salt Stack as the winner of its LaunchPad competition.