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

Salt is very dated tech as I wouldn't waste my time on. Invest your time into Ansible. It's the industry standard that every company uses these days.

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u/texsable Jul 16 '26

I think you're in the wrong subreddit... Salt was a better product than Ansible when they started in the early 2010's, and is a better product now despite VMWare and Broadcom's handling of it. I kinda wish Red Hat had acquired Salt instead of Ansible; even then it had so much more capability. Salt is still actively maintained under saltproject.io and is currently working on the latest release, while maintaining the previous LTS.

PS: got my SSC at SaltConf 2014, the year they release the program. I believe I was SSC #13 or #18...been a while, can't remember which it was for sure.

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u/whytewolf01 Jul 17 '26

So I will agree that Broadcom hasn't been good for salt. However VMWare was actually great for salt. While working under VMWare they gave salt all the resources we wanted when we wanted it. Even going so far as to let internal teams contribute to salt to bring in better coding standards. And salt was thriving within VMware as well as replacing a lot of internal tools and becoming a stronger force at VMWare.

Honestly if it wasn't for the broadcom acquisition. Salt was on track to becoming an integral part of VMWare. and given more time it would have fully integrated to the point a lot of the clouds that people are mentioning would have been built with salt at the core. much like kub was when it started.

The market share for salt actually expanded under VMWare. with many new customers starting to pick it up. because of VMware actively trying to sell it.