Name: SaltStack Enterprise
Rating: 3.8 (34 reviews)

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Product Information on SaltStack Enterprise

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SaltStack Enterprise?

SaltStack Enterprise is a software designed to automate configuration management, cloud control, and orchestration of infrastructure at scale. It provides tools for managing servers, network devices, and other IT resources across on-premises and cloud environments. The software enables users to enforce security policies, maintain compliance, and standardize configurations through state definitions and automated workflows. SaltStack Enterprise addresses challenges related to manual configuration, inconsistent deployment, and operational overhead by enabling remote execution, event-driven automation, and real-time monitoring. It supports integration with various systems and simplifies complex maintenance tasks by providing centralized management and reporting features.

Overall experience with SaltStack Enterprise

Production Support Engineer

250M - 500M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“One of the best python based configuration management open-source engine ”

4.0

Apr 11, 2020

It helped me to achieve automation and worked well when it comes to command, multiple machines directly.

SR ENGINEER

30B + USD, Banking

CRITICAL

“Saltstack: Masterful Automation, Questionable Web Portal”

3.0

Jul 26, 2024

While Saltstack is a straightforward automation tool that interacts with agents to deploy applications or execute automation steps, the Saltstack Enterprise (SSE) Web portal falls short in terms of efficiency. Troubleshooting through its job logs can be challenging

About Company

Company Description

VMware is a provider of multi-cloud services for all applications, enabling digital innovation while offering enterprise control. The company was established in 1998 and has been pioneering technological innovations over the years. VMware has a commitment to innovation, fusing curiosity with execution. The company focuses on the utilization of groundbreaking technologies such as edge computing, AI, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes, amongst others, as a way of addressing the most pressing challenges of its customers.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Head office location

Palo Alto, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

https://www.vmware.com

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SaltStack Enterprise Likes & Dislikes

It's agent less system management, which i liked the most.

- Simple Master and Agent architecture - Developing automation is as easy as writing instructions as it uses YAML

Salt improves a standard administrator's capabilities by tenfold. You will start saving the organization time and resources in a significant way with a few committed hours to get the hang of it. The open source group of Salt is prepared and willing to help you if you have concerns or are faced with problems.

Nothing to mention specifically

Web Portal and Job logs view..

It ensure that you are on the mark when checking the product to make sure that there are no flaws. Even, if you're a new user, setting up and running can be quite complicated. You need to be on the expert side as beginners don't have tutorials.

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10B+ USD

Banking

Review Source

Saltstack: Masterful Automation, Questionable Web Portal

50M-1B USD

One of the best python based configuration management open-source engine

Software Engineer

IT Services

Best configuration and automation framework

5.0

Dec 26, 2019

SaltStack has indeed helped increase our control of configurations as well as consistency with regulations and health. We were able to optimize our server configurations based on their functions as well as the settings that helped to improve our system stability. Saltstack software setup control managment to include system integration, security compliance as we build up the implementation. As a simple way to check whether any of our devices are susceptible to the new 0-day exploits, we use slat. We can easily produce a list by using salt and export it to our chosen output format (JSON) and then use salt to fix the impacted systems.

IT Manager

1B-10B USD

Finance (non-banking)

SaltStack is a valuable part of our infrastructure and support for DevOps

Nov 19, 2019

We have been very pleased with the assistance and help that we have received even with the fact that we are using Open Salt and have not yet purchased a license for Enterprise. The Open Salt product is amazing by itself and we are looking to purchase licensing in the near future. This is in two parts, 1. The Open Salt product has already helped up and provided amazing value. It is all console and command line driven and we are looking forward to moving to the Enterprise UI experience that also has much better governance and control. 2. The company representative has been very helpful and willing to provide great value even though we have not become a customer yet. We are very pleased with the value of the product and services provided by SaltStack.

Senior Software Engineer

<50M USD

We were left holding the bag...and we found out it was full of gold!

Well we had a CTO that moved all of our infrastructure (190 machines) to SaltStack and didn't tell anyone about how it works and then he just left our company for a new opportunity. We've been picking up the pieces slowly and trying to figure out how it works. We've made some great strides. We're not experts but we know enough to realize how convenient and sweet it makes managing hardware! In hindsight we're very grateful for the organization Salt can bring to configuration management. I'd highly recommend it to anyone that has to manage servers/routers at large scale. It's very rewarding once you become a Salt master!