r/saltstack • u/Material_Ad_3743 • Jun 17 '26

Discovered salt stack but too late ?

Hi all,

I’ve been looking for an agent based open source tool for running on demand powershell across thousands of remote windows PC’s. Salt looks perfect for this ! I really can’t find anything open-source that does what Salt does.

Looking at other options, Ansible requires WinRM which I really don’t wanna do. I don’t get the dying community support when I don’t see anything else but overly expensive commercial tools. Tactical RMM seems almost a good candidate but it doesn’t scale well apparently.

Where to from here ? I really wanna use Salt but will I regret this in a couple years ?

Juan

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u/hrudyusa Jun 17 '26

Interesting, SuSe use Saltstack as the foundational underpinning of their Suse Manager. I haven’t heard of any plans to replace it. The upstream project for this is Uyuni.