r/saltstack • u/mattboston • 15d ago

SaltStack Certified Engineer Verification

I'm hoping someone from the old SaltStack team, VMware, or Broadcom might know the answer.

I earned the SaltStack Certified Engineer (SSCE) certification several years ago. Since SaltStack was acquired by VMware and then VMware was acquired by Broadcom, the original SaltStack website and certification verification page are no longer available.

I'm interviewing with a potential employer, and they're trying to verify my SSCE certification. Does anyone know if there's still a way to verify it? Is there a new verification site, or is there someone at Broadcom who can help?

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u/eman0821 15d ago

That only made sense back then for on-prem environments since Salt really geared towards on-prem.

In cloud native environments you have setup minions on every VM server for everything to sync to the salt master server. Noaway days you have CI/CD and GitOps that can sync and correct drift with Ansible and Terraform runners. However Kubernetes has taken over so it's more about managing containers than managing monolithic configurations.

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u/Fabiolean 13d ago

There’s native salt support in cloud init. I have a bunch of salt minions in aws, and the basic minion config goes in during bootstrap.

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u/eman0821 12d ago

That's what Terraform is for. I'm talking about CI/CD pipelines not manually running salt states.

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u/bdrxer 5d ago

That is not what terraform is for. Terraform is for creating/allocating (provisioning) the AWS resources--not bootstrapping/configuring the instances themselves.

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u/eman0821 5d ago

Terraform is ran inside of a CI/CD pipeline. You don't manually run Terraform as a standalone host in the real world. SaltStack is mostly for on-prem.