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hehe i didnt want to put `between 1 and` because of the salt fiasco https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21... and then i had a typo .. i will fix in the next revision!

comment by throwaway47292 · 2022-02-25 · in Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

…towards this architecture in the foreseeable future as well [1] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/ [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/ [3] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/ssh/index.html [4] https://gitlab.com/saltstack/pop/idem…

comment by eliaspro · 2020-06-11 · in Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at scale

…decided to roll their own encryption. You don't have to look that far to find problems with that: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...

comment by hawaiian · 2020-05-06 · in Post Mortem on Salt Incident

…x, y, z: None) --- [0]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2228 [1]: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e8ce66cf688b43aeb3e...

comment by jlgaddis · 2020-05-05 · in SaltStack Mining Attack

…your ssh keys. For anyone else that's affected, people have been tracking it within a github issue: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57057

comment by willjp · 2020-05-05 · in Salt Bugs Allow Full RCE as Root on Cloud Servers

https://github.com/saltstack/salt Salt (also known as SaltStack) was right. > Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for…

comment by mroche · 2020-03-14 · in Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

…https://www.chef.io/press-release/chef-open-sources-100-perc... [2] https://www.saltstack.com/ [3] https://github.com/saltstack/salt [4] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/master/ref/renderers/all/salt....

comment by antoncohen · 2020-01-21 · in Show HN: Bash Script to Install a Webserver and PHP on a Clean OS

…did teach him a thing or two and he did several contributions to salt[2]. That's literally it. [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=quinnypig

comment by SEJeff · 2019-02-25 · in As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills

…the status quo of "buffer everything until it is completely done" grates against one's senses. [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/22733 [2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887

comment by rhymenoceros · 2018-11-09 · in Redo, buildroot, and serializing parallel logs

…a former maintainer of the saltstack config management software (and still occasional contributor): https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff I find that kubernetes is a better fit for a lot of the applications which…

comment by SEJeff · 2018-10-03 · in Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects

…meanwhile I've been an active contributor to large Python-based open source projects, e.g., Salt ( https://github.com/saltstack/salt ) which not only that it helped me get feedback from people with a tremendous experience, but also reading…

comment by mirceaulinic · 2018-08-18 · in Ask HN: How did you learn python?

…and people do use it. It's 40 LOC and has only needed 32 commits in the six years it's been around: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/5406a7cdd4729/salt/re... The takeaway is YAML/Jinja generate exactly the same result as the Python…

comment by whiteinge · 2017-05-18 · in DevOps tools review for DataCenter automation: Ansible-StackStorm-SaltStack

The configuration management tool Saltstack: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff And an infrastructure metrics tool named Graphite (maybe you've heard of it?): https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?aut…

comment by SEJeff · 2016-10-27 · in Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?

…That is how everyone else does it. Disclaimer: I'm a comaintainer of 2 large open source projects: https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/graphite-project

comment by SEJeff · 2014-11-21 · in Ask HN: How should one properly initiate an Open Source project?

I've always been a bit wary of salt after: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/2239 Perhaps unfairly so... yet, I'm not entirely put at ease by: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/5913 Did salt ever move to a secure transport?…

comment by e12e · 2014-08-05 · in Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?

Yes, that actually happened: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21... There's an interesting real-world RSA bug related to yours: in the absence of proper padding, it's possible that e=3 RSA of a small plaintext…

comment by tptacek · 2014-04-16 · in Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go"

They are using salt to configure their infrastructure now instead of chef, interesting! https://github.com/saltstack/salt

comment by SEJeff · 2014-01-26 · in PyPI Migrated to New Infrastructure

I wonder how long before saltstack adopts this? Something tells me not long at all. [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt

comment by SEJeff · 2013-09-14 · in Using ZeroMQ Security

Come visit us at https://github.com/saltstack/salt ! We love new contributors

comment by SEJeff · 2013-08-03 · in Ask HN: Python open source projects i can contribute to

Here's a ticket to track for following the state of crypto in Saltstack, https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/5913 . It includes a lot of thoughts from the project founder on how to handle it.

comment by ipmb · 2013-07-05 · in Saltstack: Changing RSA public exponent from 1 to 65537

…to the name, but the "other" salt, saltstack, apparently had a serious problem with cryptography: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...

comment by lukashed · 2013-07-05 · in Show HN: Terminal-based group chat with end-to-end encryption

…review of their approach and found 2 issues which completely broke their authentication protocol ( https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/2239 & https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/2916 ).

comment by dzderic · 2013-06-24 · in Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

…their implementation has had vulnerabilities. http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.15.1.html https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21... Here's a good article( http://missingm.co/2013/06/ansible-and-salt-a-detaile…

comment by DASD · 2013-06-24 · in Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

Salt starts off with negative marks because they decided to type the letters A-E-S in their codebase: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/crypt.py... Specifically, they appear to be doing AES-CBC with HMAC-SHA256. There's…

comment by lvh · 2013-02-19 · in Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ

Yes! https://github.com/saltstack/salt While Ohloh[1] says we have had 240 unique contributors over the past 12 months, we are always looking for new ways to use and extend the project. Feel free to hop on #salt on irc.freenode.net and ask…

comment by SEJeff · 2013-01-21 · in Ask HN: Anyone have a github repo they'd like someone to contribute to?

Don't forget the actual website, http://saltstack.org or the code at: http://github.com/saltstack/salt

comment by SEJeff · 2012-12-30 · in Salt: Open source tool to manage your infrastructure

…is listed in one the 'top lists' in the article and I haven't heard anything about it before: https://github.com/saltstack/salt Looks interesting, a quick search on hnsearch shows a post from ~6 months ago that didn't seem to get any…

comment by mbell · 2012-12-19 · in The Octoverse in 2012