Empowering Cloud Infrastructure Automation with Salt

Exploring the speaker's journey within the Salt project, from cloud working group captain to post-acquisition contributor by VMware. The chapter details the strengths of Salt for cloud automation, its scalability benefits in large-scale operations, and contrasts its efficiency with tools like Ansible. It also touches on challenges in maintaining a large codebase, the evolution of potential new features, and the strategic balance between core functionality and community-driven extensions.