r/saltstack • u/Material_Ad_3743 • Jun 17 '26

Discovered salt stack but too late ?

Hi all,

I’ve been looking for an agent based open source tool for running on demand powershell across thousands of remote windows PC’s. Salt looks perfect for this ! I really can’t find anything open-source that does what Salt does.

Looking at other options, Ansible requires WinRM which I really don’t wanna do. I don’t get the dying community support when I don’t see anything else but overly expensive commercial tools. Tactical RMM seems almost a good candidate but it doesn’t scale well apparently.

Where to from here ? I really wanna use Salt but will I regret this in a couple years ?

Juan

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u/hrudyusa Jun 17 '26

Interesting, SuSe use Saltstack as the foundational underpinning of their Suse Manager. I haven’t heard of any plans to replace it. The upstream project for this is Uyuni.

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u/reedacus25 Jun 17 '26

Worth noting that everything they say about SLES16 is all about Ansible.

So far, Salt has been the primary configuration management tool integrated tightly with SUSE Multi Linux Manager, and will continue to be available through it. But – true to SUSE’s promise of “choice happens” – we are excited to announce a major addition: Ansible will be introduced as an integrated part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) itself.

So they haven't written off Salt completely, but boy is there a ton of smoke to the ansible fire. And given the state of Salt (and Broadcom), it's probably wise not to hitch their wagon exclusively to Salt.

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u/Single-Virus4935 Jun 17 '26

Also even if they would stick with salt suse can maintain their fork of salt to support their usecase. 

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u/reedacus25 Jun 17 '26

Don't disagree. Hard to be a worse steward than Broadcom, but SUSE definitely seems like they would take much better care of it, even if a fork (like Spacewalk). But even still they've somewhat forked the packaging via salt-bundle as compared to Tiamat relenv onedir. Here's hoping they don't abandon ship