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> Not sure about SaltStack. Never had the opportunity to try. I'd be a bit worried though on the long term prospect because I don't think they have much backing
by kazen44 8y ago
> Not sure about SaltStack. Never had the opportunity to try. I'd be a bit worried though on the long term prospect because I don't think they have much backing or user base.
saltstack is a well thoughout solution in my opinion. It makes more logical sense and is less of a mumbled mess then either chef or puppet and has miles better performance then ansible.
I know quite a few shops who use it. Its definitly smaller then ansible.
- mattbillenstein 8y ago+1 for salt -- I wish it had better docs or examples of how to build out a larger system; it's hard to start with imho even if you know ansible well. The existing docs read like man pages without the helpful examples even. At the last gig, I wrapped salt deploys with a small Slack bot, so users would fire deploys from Slack; you could see what was going out and who was pushing. It was a very very nice, simple, fast solution that should scale to hundreds of machines easily.
- robohoe 8y agoSaltStack is around. Lots of big orgs take the time to understand. Ansible is more popular because you can use it with just one playbook. Saltstack requires you to think about your environment and design your configuration management properly.
- dijit 8y agoI use salt. Multiple thousands of machines. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do with it. I wrote some custom utilities for it. Added some functionality to handle physical deployments of an OS with redfish (the new iLO/iDRAC api). Salt is not without warts but its definitely worth checking out.