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    Pretty advanced question on salt stack, genuine question from a Chef user: I had understood salt as a push model, how could a node (minion ?) register itself ? (That's just out of curiosity) Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 18:36
  • Ask that as a separate question, and I'll see if I can put together a satisfactory answer without bouncing against my NDA. Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 18:38
  • Fair enough, but my last inspection of salt stack didn't meet my requirements (specially on windows boxes) so I'll see if I can make something unbiased and if I really have time to. Tried as comment just in case I missed something obvious :) Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 18:41
  • I don't have enough rep for chat yet, so this will have to do. But in brief: A salt minion running on a node will use DNS to find out where its salt master is, and will reach out to the master. Master will dump the minion's key into a pending queue until someone accepts it. Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 18:43
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    As far as I know association bonus works for chat, you have far over 20, so this should work for DevOps Chat :) Thanks for the pointer minions can ask to be registered themselves, I had missed this approach Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 18:46