VMware Aria Automation (formerly SaltStack)
Event-driven automation for a multi-cloud world.
Overview
VMware Aria Automation, which incorporates SaltStack, is a powerful automation platform designed for modern, multi-cloud environments. Salt is an open-source, event-driven automation and configuration management tool. It excels at high-speed data collection and execution, making it ideal for auto-remediation. It can monitor systems for specific events or state changes and automatically trigger remediation actions to enforce policy or fix issues.
✨ Key Features
- Event-driven automation (Salt Reactor)
- High-speed remote execution
- Desired state configuration management
- Security policy enforcement and remediation (SecOps)
- Cloud and network automation
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Event-driven architecture is ideal for reactive auto-remediation
- High performance and scalability
- Strong capabilities in security operations (SecOps) automation
Unique Value: Provides a highly scalable and responsive automation framework that can react to events in near real-time, enabling true event-driven auto-remediation for security and operations.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Automatically remediating security vulnerabilities or compliance violations as they are detected
- Responding to system events (e.g., a service failure) with automated recovery actions
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Organizations without a need for high-speed, event-driven automation or those preferring an agentless solution
🏆 Alternatives
Offers a more performant and event-driven model compared to the pull-based model of Puppet or the agentless, push-based model of Ansible, making it superior for certain real-time remediation tasks.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Available tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: Open source Salt is free
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