cast | Cast is an installer for any compatible Saltstack

cast is a Go library. cast has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Simply put a cast distro is one published by the cast binary, however it's a bit more complicated than that. The underlying technology used for installing the distro is Saltstack. There are only two (2) version 1 cast distros out there and they are SIFT and REMnux and what makes them a v1 is the way the release files are generated and signed and how the saltstack files are organized in the repository. A version 2 cast distro is one like example-distro-saltstack where the salt states start in the root of the project and the release is generated by the cast-devtools. The reason for moving the states to the root is for git submodule usage for distros that extend another distro.