Mgmt Config vs Salt
Mgmt Config
mgmtconfig.com
Salt
saltproject.ioSide by side
| Figure | Mgmt Config | Salt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Configuration Management Tools | 7.3 (#19) | 8.3 (#9) |
| Community | The project welcomes community participation and contributions, and provides user guides, resource and function references, and contributor documentation. | The Salt Project community includes more than 3,000 contributors. |
| Installation | The getting-started guide requires a modern x86_64 (amd64) Linux distribution and lists dependencies for augeas, libvirt, and PackageKit. | Salt provides official RPM, DEB, and generic repositories for Windows, macOS, and other non-RPM and non-DEB packages. |
| Integrations | The project includes a Prometheus guide and documents a service API for external developers. | SaltStack Config integrates with LDAP, SAML, OIDC, and Active Directory. |
| License | The project repository identifies its license as GPL-3.0. | Salt is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| Purpose | Mgmt is an open source automation tool for modeling infrastructure as code and running it autonomously. | Salt is a Python-based, open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, automation, provisioning, and orchestration. |
| Security | The maker describes the tool as safe and says its language is designed with immutability, strong typing, and functional programming. | Salt uses RSA keys for authentication, AES keys for encryption, and rotates the AES key every 24 hours by default or when a minion is deleted. |
| Support | The project directs community questions to its Matrix community and points enterprise product and service inquiries to m9rx.com. | The project directs users to GitHub issues for bugs and problems and to Discord for community technical support and discussions. |
Plans
In their own words
Mgmt Config
Mgmt Config has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Salt
Salt is a free, open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, provisioning and infrastructure orchestration. A single execution can run commands across thousands of systems in seconds. A typical setup has a master managing minions, but Salt also supports agentless operation through salt-ssh or salt-proxy and stand-alone use. Salt states define configurations that can be extended and layered, while orchestration can order work by dependency, such as preparing a load balancer before a web-server cluster. Salt Cloud provisions systems on cloud hosts and hypervisors and can connect new virtual machines to a master. Its documented providers include Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure, OpenStack, DigitalOcean, Linode, VMware and Proxmox. SaltStack Config adds a web interface, role-based access control, multi-master support, reporting and an enterprise API, along with LDAP, SAML, OIDC and Active Directory integrations. Salt uses RSA key authentication and encrypted master-minion communication. It is self-hosted and licensed under Apache 2.0.