OpenVox vs Salt
OpenVox
docs.openvoxproject.org
Salt
saltproject.ioSide by side
| Figure | OpenVox | Salt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Configuration Management Tools | 7.7 (#14) | 8.3 (#9) |
| Spec score · IT Automation Software | 7.7 (#44) | 8.4 (#20) |
| Spec score · Orchestration / Provisioning Software | 7.7 (#19) | 8.3 (#8) |
| Integrations | OpenVox Server exposes HTTP APIs, including catalog, certificate authority, status, and metrics endpoints. | SaltStack Config integrates with LDAP, SAML, OIDC, and Active Directory. |
| Orchestration | OpenBolt is a community implementation of Puppet Bolt that automates infrastructure management over SSH and WinRM without requiring agents. | Salt can configure sets of systems in dependency order, such as setting up a load balancer before a web-server cluster. |
| Purpose | OpenVox is a community-maintained implementation of Puppet, a configuration management system that manages system state through a declarative language. | Salt is a Python-based, open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, automation, provisioning, and orchestration. |
| Security | In agent/server mode, agents and servers communicate over HTTPS with mutual TLS. | 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 documentation directs users to community help and a list of commercial support partners. | 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
OpenVox
OpenVox is a community-maintained implementation of Puppet for declarative configuration management: it describes system state and applies it through agents managed by a server or in standalone mode. In standalone use, `puppet apply` compiles and applies a catalog locally. Existing Puppet Open Source manifests, modules, Hiera data, and tooling work unchanged. It is self-hosted and lists support for Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux, Fedora, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows. Agent/server communication uses HTTPS with mutual TLS; agents must first obtain a signed certificate from a local Puppet certificate authority or an external CA. OpenVox Server exposes HTTP APIs for catalogs, certificate authority, status, and metrics. OpenVoxDB stores reports, inventory, and exported resources, while OpenBolt automates infrastructure over SSH and WinRM without agents. Documented packages include agent, server, database, termini, and orchestration components. The software is free and community-maintained. Documentation points users to community help and commercial support partners.
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.