Some Salt for that Heartbleed — SaltStack

Some Salt for that Heartbleed — SaltStack.

Saltstack is another automation and orchestration tool much like Chef and Puppet. The latest attack vector, heartbleed, is exploiting an OpenSSL vulnerability. OpenSSL has been remediated and now it is the sysadmin and devops job to apply the latest OpenSSL update to all their servers. To do this, using salt, they simply execute

pkg.install openssl refresh=True;

This single command can be used to remediate entire datacenters in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee. Very, very powerful.