Salt.Box - first release
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Today, May 16, 2025, the Salt.Box Team announces the first release of the Salt.Box Software Suite, Salt.Box v0.0.1.
Now any developer can join the product testing.
The Salt.Box v0.0.1 components are located in the repositories:
| Subsystem (component) | Purpose | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Salt.Box Core | Salt.Box server components | https://dev.saltbox.pro/saltbox/saltbox-core |
| Salt.Box Bridge | A set of additional SaltStack modules for connecting Salt master to Salt.Box | https://dev.saltbox.pro/saltbox/saltbox-bridge |
| Salt.Box Frontend | Salt.Box user interface modules | https://dev.saltbox.pro/saltbox/saltbox-frontend |
| Salt.Box Compose | A set of scripts for deploying Salt.Box in a Docker environment | https://dev.saltbox.pro/saltbox/saltbox-compose |
Features implemented in Salt.Box v0.0.1:
Management and administration
- Common web interface for centralized management of minions, tasks, command templates and configurations
- Multi-user mode with flexible access control
- Scalability — support for working with multiple master servers
Inventory and monitoring
- Collecting information about minions with receiving standard and custom grains
- Statistical analysis of collected grains
- Flexible filtering — powerful tools for grouping and filtering workstations by grains data
- Managing minion collections — the ability to save and reuse created filters
Task execution
- Managing commands SaltStack (jobs) with configurable parameters and targeting
- Parallel execution — asynchronous execution of configuration tasks on individual minions and minion collections
- Bulk execution of commands with task batch size customization
- Template management — support for pluggable repositories with task templates (.sls)
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