Salt is a bit of a rarity among ops people but the funny thing is my experience is the opposite of yours - 66%+ of companies I see with Salt run in master/minio

Salt is a bit of a rarity among ops people but the funny thing is my experience is the opposite of yours - 66%+ of companies I see with Salt run in master/minion mode. I prefer it over Ansible when my ssh settings are super awkward (MFA, multiple bastions, etc) to integrate into an Ansible inventory file. One place with 900+ hosts and 300+ random IP ranges with tons of (badly written) compliance I spent about 3 weeks trying to get an inventory file hacked up and I gave up and deployed Salt within a day for the basic stuff I needed to do for basic running of shell commands from a single point of control.