IDG Contributor Network: Role of DevOps in modern IT infrastructure, an interview with SaltStack CTO Thomas Hatch

As ‘everything as a service’ is becoming a common practice in modern IT infrastructure, it’s increasingly important to orchestrate and automate the building blocks of infrastructure, including change management. That's where DevOps tools like the open source systems and configuration management SaltStack comes in.
I visited the SaltStack booth at SCaLE 14x, where they've been a sponsor since 2012. In a separate conversation with Christer Edwards, a sysadmin at Adobe, he told m