Welcome to the vRealize Automation SaltStack Config documentation. Learn how to provision, configure, and deploy software to your virtual machines at any scale using event-driven automation. You can also use SaltStack Config to define and enforce optimal, compliant software states across your entire environment.
Introducing the New VMware Aria Family Name
Starting with the VMware Aria Automation April 2023 and upcoming VMware Aria Automation 8.12 release, the documentation suite is hosted on a new VMware Aria Automation product documentation landing page that includes documentation for:
- Aria Automation Assembler (formerly Cloud Assembly)
- Aria Automation Consumption (formerly Service Broker)
- Aria Automation Pipeline (formerly Code Stream)
- Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator)
- Aria Automation Config (formerly SaltStack Config)
- Aria Automation for Secure Hosts (formerly SecOps)
SaltStack Config integrates with vRealize Automation
SaltStack Config is tightly integrated with vRealize Automation and is one of its key product features. SaltStack Config is available for both the on-prem and cloud versions of vRealize Automation. See VMware vRealize Automation Documentation for more information.
Switching between cloud and on-prem documentation
SaltStack Config has many of the same features for both the cloud and on-premises versions, but you can use the version to selector to read the product documentation for your version.
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| With an article open, click the Selected product version drop-down menu at the top of the article to switch between the cloud/SaaS version and an 8.x version. |
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Ready to get started with SaltStack Config?
Use the links in the navigation to the left to access documentation for the main vRealize Automation services. Use the links below to access related guides for your Cloud services or on-prem versions.
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| Installing and Configuring SaltStack Config | Getting Started with Automation Config |
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| Creating and running configuration management jobs |
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| Integrating with vRealize Automation |
Create a SaltStack Config integration with vRealize Automation |
| Salt SaltStack Config runs on Salt, an open-source automation and configuration management engine. Consider learning more about Salt to get the most out of SaltStack Config. |
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| Setting up the SaltStack Config Cloud service | Getting Started with SaltStack Config Cloud |
| Deploying the Salt minion service to your network infrastructure |
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| SaltStack Config high availability guidelines |
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| Controlling which users have access to run certain jobs or access network resources |
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| Using the API |
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| Collecting and displaying system metrics |
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| Configuring the Salt Master Plugin |
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| Configuring the API (RaaS) |
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| Backing up critical data |
