Discussion on: How to securely store API keys

[Bruno Pedro 💡]

Hi Duke. Salt Stack looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing it—I'll add it to my list of alternatives.

[Erebos Manannán]

Yea it does a lot of things very well, and is built with components that you can take into use separately.

Some examples of things you can do with Salt Stack:

• Configure your servers (install software, setup config files, restart services, yadi yadi yada)
• Automate actions throughout your infrastructure based on events, e.g. when a new API server boots up it gets added to the load balancer
• Orchestrate your cloud infrastructure - you configure the number of each type of server you need and Salt takes care of the rest
• Remotely run shell commands on multiple servers simultaneously with filters
• Do various rolling release fashion operations

Basically Salt Stack can take care of most of your server management needs.