SaltStack minions require secrets either in order to access servers (e.g SSH key) or in order to place those secrets within newly defined configuration (e.g change a service account on a particular service). Secrets are stored in a pillar, which enables sensitive data to be securely sent only to the relevant minions. By integrating SaltStack with Akeyless, you would not need to keep hard coded secrets within the SaltStack minions such as API-keys, tokens, certificates and username & password credentials.