Getting Started with Salt Stack-the Other Configuration
Management System Built with Python  I was proudly wearing one
of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me,
"What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it
solved. If you have multiple servers and want to do things to
those servers, you would need to log in to each one and do those
things one at a time on each one. They could be fairly simple
tasks like restarting them or checking how long they have been
running. Or, you might want to do more complicated things like
installing software and then configuring that software based
upon your own specific criteria. You also might want to add
users and configure permissions for them.  What if you have ten
or maybe even 100 servers though? Imagine logging in one at a
time to each server individually, issuing the same commands on
those 100 machines and then editing the configuration files on
all 100 machines? What a pain! Just updating user password
policies would take days, and intr