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Simple Saltstack-like deployment system in 2k lines of Python

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2021-09-19 · latest 2026-05-04

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  1. I should try this myself, but I also rolled my own https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty In the spirit of Saltstack with full python throughout including Mako templating. It has a very simple set of operators mostly around idempotent…
    comment by mattbillenstein · 2026-05-04 · in PyInfra 3.8.0
  2. Interesting, I built a whole rpc / file-server ala saltstack on top of something like this: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty Been using this on a couple startups for a couple years, but it lacks polish in terms of…
    comment by mattbillenstein · 2025-03-13 · in Shef
  3. …using my own homegrown project that does just this - Python roles, server/client, Mako templates: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty It's very very fast to do deploys on long-lived infrastructure, but it hasn't been optimized for…
    comment by mattbillenstein · 2024-05-01 · in Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
  4. …to "this is fine" is usually not going to produce good outcomes in a server automation suite: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/example... * if this had an "else: return 1" equivalent, it wouldn't cause the salty.py to…
    comment by mdaniel · 2021-09-20 · in Show HN: Salty, a minimalist DevOps tool inspired by Saltstack and Ansible
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    Show HN: Salty, a minimalist DevOps tool inspired by Saltstack and Ansible
    story by mattbillenstein · 2021-09-19 · 6 comments