[zeromq-dev] Salt, a zeromq remote execution manager
Thomas S Hatch
thatch45 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 08:35:30 CEST 2011
I was on irc today and mentioned a zeromq based project I am working on
called salt. I was asked to post information on salt here, which got me
really excited! So far I have received a great deal of positive feedback on
salt and it is being used in a few datacenters and in some distributed
computing research.
Salt is a remote execution system which is similar to the Fedora func
project and puppet labs' Marionette Collective, but the executions are
called in parallel across multiple systems thanks to zeromq. Salt has also
been written with the developer in mind, salt can be VERY easily extended
with modules and can act as a standalone remote execution system or act as a
simple to use message passing and managing broker with authentication and
encryption built in.
Also one of the goals for salt is simplicity, I will argue that it is the
easiest remote execution system out there today to manage and set up!
I just released 0.8.0 and the release announcement is here on my blog:
http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/salt-0-8-0/
Look at the earlier release notes for a more robust explanation of what salt
can do:
http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/salt-0-7-0/
http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/salt-0-6-0-released/
The tarball can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/downloads/thatch45/salt/salt-0.8.0.tar.gz
and salt is hosted on github:
https://github.com/thatch45/salt
I am also working on a system called butter that runs on top of salt for
more complicated and compound remote executions, but I will post about it
when I have the initial release in the next few weeks!
Please check out the salt wiki and the salt code, there are howtos for
setting up salt and development on the github wiki.
Thank you for zeromq, it has opened up powerful capabilities for network
development and has enabled me to make salt into an amazing project!
-Thomas S Hatch
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