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Open Hour 2023-OCT-5

Open hour notes for July 20, 2023. This week, Thomas talks about how to use Jinja with statements and Derek mentions some important announcements about Slack and open source packages.

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Aria Automation Config and Salt Project — Leader in Configuration Management

When SaltStack was founded in 2011, it was built to be a pioneer in intelligent, event-driven configuration automation that controls and secures IT infrastructure and it is still doing that today.

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Open Hour 2023-SEP-21

Open hour notes for September 21, 2023. In this open hour, we announced a new release of Salt and Gareth demoed the new quickstart guide.

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