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...Before implementing Salt to manage any data center infrastructure it is important to understand a few things about Salt platform support including: What platforms will the Salt Master run on? What systems and infrastructure can be managed by a Salt Minion? Salt runs on and manages many versions of Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX. The Salt Supported Operating System document defines the specific operating systems that are fully supported and outlines the package creation policy for each operating system listed. The document also outlines the best-effort support policy for additional operating systems. Salt Bootstrap is a shell script that detects the target platform and selects the best installation method.

Chef is an infrastructure-as-code framework that automates how servers are configured and kept in the desired state across fleets. You describe system intent in Ruby-based “recipes” and “cookbooks” made of resources (packages, files, services, users, registries, and more) that converge idempotently, so repeated runs only change what’s necessary. Its client regularly gathers system facts, evaluates policy, and enforces drift correction, which makes environments reproducible from bare metal to...