Salt is another member of the provisioning and infrastructure as code family. It can be compared directly to Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. It's written in the Python language and was first released in March 2011.

Salt can sometimes be referred to as the SaltStack platform. This is due to the modular approach in which the software has been designed and built. It's extensible, flexible approach allows you to add and remove modules.

Salt has one main setup—the client and server. You can think of it as a Puppet Master and Minion setup. Salt uses a server (Master) and client (Minion) for its configuration management. The other setup option that Salt supports is called Masterless,