SaltStack platform or Salt is a Python-based open source configuration management software and remote execution engine. Supporting the “infrastructure-as-code” approach to deployment and cloud management, it competes primarily with Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. SaltStack software orchestrates the build and ongoing management of any legacy or modern infrastructure. SaltStack is known as the fastest, most scalable systems and configuration management software for event-driven automation of CloudOps, ITOps and DevOps.