Salt

Salt (source code) is a configuration management tool used for application deployment and setting up development environments.

Salt resources

• What's new in Salt 3000 Neon covers the latest release and the significant number of new features and fixes contained within it.

• Introduction to Salt gives a 30 second summary of what the tool can do for you then provides a collection of links to other resources that plug you into the Salt community, such as the salt-users mailing list and the Salt Stack company blog.

• Linode has two great beginner guides to Salt, the first one on Getting Started with Salt - Basic Installation and Setup and the other titled A Beginner's Guide to Salt.