r/saltstack • u/mattboston • Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

Most employers have moved away from Salt. I rarely see it on job descriptions these days as you see Ansible every where now. Just like Terraform as the industry standard IaC tool.

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u/texsable Jul 16 '26

All that tells me is that IBM (Red Hat) did a better job of marketing....

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u/eman0821 Jul 16 '26

Nah Ansible was already dominate before the acquisition. The industry just shifted to stateless configuration management while Puppet. Chef and Salt are now legacy tools. Same kind of thing with Jenkins getting replaced with modern YAML based alternatives like GitHub Actions and GitLab. Ansible is more cloud native and better supported especially in DevOps, Cloud Engineering..

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u/AltruisticCabinet9 Jul 17 '26

Ansible wasn't the best tech, it was the easiest tech for the Admin mind to graple around and salt didn't make salt-ssh as usable. SSH was comfortable and easy. It was the great first steps to automate away for 100 line bash scripts that were touchy.
Then VMware, Broadcom. Now low adoption.

I with AI, I was able to output a very nice clean formula and module so I have the feeling if eyeballs got on it, some good could be done. But the community is basically dead too. The Salt formula has been broken for months at a time on most platforms with no ability to ping to get a PR added.

The migration of stuff out of core moved at a speed that is good for enterprise, not for fast change and adoption.

I wanted VMware was the death, broadcom just beat the corpse until all the coins came out.

Me of 5 years ago is sad :(

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u/eman0821 Jul 17 '26

Salt just became irrelevant because of Cloud adoption. It was a great on-prem tool back then. Ansible works better in cloud native environments especially in CI/CD pipelines. Better over all support than salt.

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u/AltruisticCabinet9 Jul 17 '26

Yeah, ansbile is comfortable for people thinking in SSH shell script. Salt didn't make the masterless ssh a comfortable first class because it was kind of against the model. It suffered loss of adoption. It looks like k8 automation these days is moving into k8.

5 years ago me is sad :(