Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Git, GitLab… the list of tools you can supposedly use to automate your network is endless, and there’s a new kid on the block every few months.

In Episode 77 of Software Gone Wild we explored Salt, its internal architecture, and how you can use it with Mircea Ulinic, a happy Salt user/contributor working for Cloudflare, and Seth House, developer @ SaltStack, the company behind Salt.

Mircea also recommended these links if you want to explore Salt in more details:

• Salt in 10 minutes
• Salt Fundamentals 
• Introduction to Salt
• Salt tutorial from Digital Ocean

More specific to the network engineers’ needs:

• napalm-salt repository, under the napalm-automation community (Salt is using NAPALM to interface with network devices)
• NANOG tutorial
• Salt networking documentation: current release and next release

If you have further questions:

• networktocode Slack channels. The most useful channels for topics discussed in the podcast are #napalm and #saltstack.
• Salt-users forum