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Surprised more people here are not using Salt. Having used both Salt and Ansible, I much prefer Salt, especially when working with larger teams. When working s
by b5n 7y ago
Surprised more people here are not using Salt. Having used both Salt and Ansible, I much prefer Salt, especially when working with larger teams.
When working solo I use Guix, both Guix and Nix are _seriously_ amazing.
- skrebbel 7y agoWhat's salt? Any link? I found something called SaltStack but that appears to be enterprise security software.
- Conan_Kudo 7y agoSaltStack is actually a configuration management system, but they're re-characterizing themselves as security management software.
- techslave 7y agothey had a very large presence at RSAC 2020. i was very confused by it. they are not security software. however i suppose there are no “configuration management “ tradeshows
- detaro 7y agoI haven't looked into what they added specifically for the space, but I think a configuration management company at a security trade show makes sense: Configuration management is a very useful tool for various security goals.
- Conan_Kudo 7y agoConfig Management Camp is the main conference for config management: https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/
- mroche 7y agohttps://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/saltstack/salt Salt (also known as SaltStack) was right. > Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
- skrebbel 7y agoThanks! I'm ultra confused about their marketing btw. Their website doesn't even say it's open source. You have to sign up to "try it now". It's like they don't want customers? Or are people who want to understand what they're buying not the target market, somehow? For reference, this appears to be the Salt primer: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/system/index.html https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/system/index.html
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoI think there is a small subset of users where open source is actually a buying decision
- skrebbel 7y agoSure, but understanding what the thing is, that's part of the buying decision right? I have no clue what https://www.saltstack.com/ https://www.saltstack.com/ is about. How do I get from this: > Drive IT security into the 21st century. Amplify the impact of your entire SecOps team with global orchestration and automation that remediates security issues in minutes, not weeks. to "it's a provisioning tool for servers, like ansible but faster"?
- cdcarter 7y agoThe docs landing page have me an easier to grok picture of what it does, purely based on seeing what the doc headers are - https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/
- yani 7y agoSalt has much nicer configs and feels supeior to Ansible. The main disadvantage that I had with salt was the need to have a salt master server. I read that this is no longer needed but I have not tried it myself. Keeping secrets outside of the repo was not trivial task, ansible has an easy way to encrypt secrets.
- apple4ever 7y agoWow really? I tried to learn Salt and it was way too complex. Comparatively Ansible was amazing to learn.
- mdaniel 7y agoMade worse by the same thing that plagues Homebrew: making up cutesy vocabulary for things. I've been working with computers for a long time, Salt, you can feel free to use Adult Words when describing a thing to me
- matt_LLVW 7y agoShameless plug, i've created a GUI for Salt: https://alcali.dev https://alcali.dev feedback welcome!