I love Salt. Worked with it in a past life, and now use Puppet, because that predated me. The pillar model and the patterns around it are great. Heira is a ter

I love Salt. Worked with it in a past life, and now use Puppet, because that predated me. The pillar model and the patterns around it are great. Heira is a terrible substitute, despite kind of following a superficially similar structure. I also really liked the idea of reactors, but that came to be right around the time I left that gig, so I didn't get to play much with it other than writing some toys. In general, Salt just feels well architected. Puppet, in comparison, feels like a ramshackle collection of useful things that just don't mesh well. The language design makes me think of Perl without a competent language designer. I will say that Salt has a higher upfront learning curve. I highly recommend giving yourself enough time to throw out your first attempt at designing anything more than a simple system setup.