public cloud VM management system

 Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to
 administer servers in a fast and efficient way.
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 It allows commands to be executed across large groups of
 servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can
 also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running
 systems becomes a reality.
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 Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a
 remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt
 state system uses salt state files to define the state a server
 needs to be in.
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 Salt Cloud is built-in to Salt to provision systems on cloud hosts or
 hypervisors and immediately bring them under management.