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New Salt Extension: Salt Analytics (Salt managed data processing pipelines)

The Salt Project team is releasing a new salt extension, salt-analytics-framework, to allow users to run data processing pipelines alongside …

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Open Hour 2023-MAY-18

Agenda Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject@vmware.com General updates and announcements Events Salt Project user group meetups New …

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3006.1 bugfix release of Salt

We are pleased to announce a bugfix release of Salt! This is a bugfix release to v3006. Thank you all …

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Open Hour 2023-MAY-4

Agenda Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject@vmware.com General updates and announcements Events Salt Project user group meetups New …

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