saltstack Salt on macOS — How kri Deploys and Operates the Fleet Control Plane
A deep dive into how kri deploys salt-master and salt-minion on macOS Mac Minis using Ansible — plist services, PAM auth, salt-api, and how minions find their master.
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saltstack agents From RAG to Agentic: How We Let an LLM Touch a 920-Node Fleet — Safely
Continuing the kri fleet assistant story: the bugs that shipped after RAG landed, the agentic design we red-teamed before building, a 6-persona audit that found the control plane was broken, and the safety model for letting an LLM act on real infrastructure.
saltstack Salt — Complete Visual Guide
SaltStack is a remote execution and configuration management system. One salt-master controls many salt-minions over encrypted ZeroMQ channels. Everything is event-driven and asynchronous.
macos macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon with tart and SaltStack
How to automate tart VM lifecycle on Apple Silicon Mac Minis using SaltStack — install, clone OCI images, set resources, and keep VMs alive with launchd. Covers both macOS Sonoma and Ubuntu VMs for testing the kri fleet platform without touching production nodes.