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We tested the salt publish commands extensively (along with many other salt based options).  It sucks for our use case.

1. It is slow.  http gives us sub-second responses every time.  Salt regularly takes several seconds.
2. It doesn't work with multiple salt masters.
3. It is difficult to get reliable responses without using a returner or querying job ids.
4. There a problems with how salt updates its modules whilst they are executing.
5. It means maintaining code and plugins and services outside of badmin.
6. It fundamentally does not match the concepts that badmin uses - autonomous, tightly inter-operating clusters of servers.