TL;DR: Salt is complex, multi-purpose tool, with event-driven orchestration and remote execution engine capabilities. In other words, it implicitly does what An

TL;DR: Salt is complex, multi-purpose tool, with event-driven orchestration and remote execution engine capabilities. In other words, it implicitly does what Ansible can do, plus many other things. What I personally like the most is the ease to develop and extend features, vs., e.g., a clogged DSL as many popular tools (unfortunately) impose.