SaltStack (Salt Project) was created in 2011 by Thomas Hatch as an open-source configuration management and remote execution platform, acquired by VMware in 2020.
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3 results shownCFEngine was created in 1993 by Mark Burgess in Oslo, Norway, and is the oldest IT automation configuration management tool, based on the unique Promise Theory design.
Puppet is one of the earliest IT automation and configuration management platforms, founded in 2005 by Luke Kanies, using declarative Puppet DSL, acquired by Perforce in 2019.