This document provides an overview of SaltStack's event-driven infrastructure and common Salt architectures. It introduces the core Salt components of the salt-master, salt-minion, and salt-ssh. Typical layouts involve salt-minions communicating with a central salt-master over ZeroMQ or SSH. The document also briefly outlines some advanced Salt features like the event bus, beacons, reactors and engines before closing with contact information.
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