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I've used Salt extensively, and found it unbelievably buggy. I'm not sure the company behind it tests it in any way, and you can expect terrible bugs in every
by saltuser 11y ago
I've used Salt extensively, and found it unbelievably buggy. I'm not sure the company behind it tests it in any way, and you can expect terrible bugs in every point release.
Their bug tracker (which is 3500 open issues deep) has to be treated as documentation, and the real documentation is often a work of fiction.
- rdtsc 11y agoI had bought into it originally because it claimed some Windows support. It did have it. But it was very limited and bug ridden. I really wanted to like it, but it just fell down at every step. Worked ok-ish on Linux systems though.
- jv22222 11y agoThat's weird. We have used salt to manage hundreds of machines for a few years and have had no issues with bugs. However, we are only using it with ubuntu so that may be a reason we haven't encountered the bugs you speak of. I will note that the zmq layer very occasionally seems to loose connections and you need to ssh into a machine and restart the salt minion, that's the only issue I've seen.