SaltStack
E431945
IT automation software
configuration management tool
open-source software
orchestration tool
remote execution platform
SaltStack is an open-source configuration management and remote execution platform used to automate the provisioning, configuration, and orchestration of IT infrastructure at scale.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SaltStack canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4325373 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SaltStack Context triple: [Jinja2, integratedWith, SaltStack]
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A.
Ansible
Ansible is a long-running, humor-infused science fiction fanzine created and edited by David Langford, renowned for its commentary on the SF community and multiple Hugo Awards.
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B.
OpenStack
OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing platform that provides a suite of software tools for building and managing public and private clouds.
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C.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an enterprise-grade IT automation solution that orchestrates configuration management, application deployment, and workflow automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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D.
Toesca
Toesca is an Italian-origin surname best known through Joaquín Toesca, an 18th-century architect influential in colonial Chilean architecture.
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E.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SaltStack Target entity description: SaltStack is an open-source configuration management and remote execution platform used to automate the provisioning, configuration, and orchestration of IT infrastructure at scale.
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A.
Ansible
Ansible is a long-running, humor-infused science fiction fanzine created and edited by David Langford, renowned for its commentary on the SF community and multiple Hugo Awards.
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B.
OpenStack
OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing platform that provides a suite of software tools for building and managing public and private clouds.
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C.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an enterprise-grade IT automation solution that orchestrates configuration management, application deployment, and workflow automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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D.
Toesca
Toesca is an Italian-origin surname best known through Joaquín Toesca, an 18th-century architect influential in colonial Chilean architecture.
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E.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IT automation software
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configuration management tool ⓘ open-source software ⓘ orchestration tool ⓘ remote execution platform ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | VMware ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2020 ⓘ |
| communicationProtocol |
TCP
ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
ZeroMQ ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Ansible
ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Chef ⓘ Puppet ⓘ |
| component |
Execution modules
ⓘ
Grains ⓘ Pillar ⓘ Renderers ⓘ Returners ⓘ Runners ⓘ Salt API ⓘ Salt Beacons ⓘ Salt Cloud ⓘ Salt Reactor ⓘ Salt SSH ⓘ Salt States ⓘ Salt Syndic ⓘ Salt master ⓘ Salt minion ⓘ State modules ⓘ |
| configurationFormat |
Jinja templates
ⓘ
YAML ⓘ |
| developer |
SaltStack Inc.
ⓘ
VMware ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/saltstack/salt ⓘ |
| supports |
REST API
ⓘ
agent-based management ⓘ agentless management ⓘ configuration management ⓘ declarative configuration ⓘ event-driven automation ⓘ horizontal scalability ⓘ idempotent state enforcement ⓘ infrastructure orchestration ⓘ integration with AWS ⓘ integration with Azure ⓘ integration with Google Cloud Platform ⓘ integration with OpenStack ⓘ integration with VMware vSphere ⓘ integration with cloud providers ⓘ remote command execution ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ |
| useCase |
compliance enforcement
ⓘ
managing configuration drift ⓘ orchestrating complex deployments ⓘ patch management ⓘ provisioning servers ⓘ |
| usesConcept | master-minion architecture ⓘ |
| website | https://saltproject.io/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SaltStack Description of subject: SaltStack is an open-source configuration management and remote execution platform used to automate the provisioning, configuration, and orchestration of IT infrastructure at scale.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.