Salt stack developer here, glad you find it useful! Please hop on IRC freenode #salt if you have questions, we're a pretty friendly community. As far as other

Salt stack developer here, glad you find it useful! Please hop on IRC freenode #salt if you have questions, we're a pretty friendly community. As far as other tools, I use and love cobbler quite a bit, but for Ubuntu support, you need a fairly new version. Also ask on #cobbler if you're having problems. The cobbler community is healthy, but not nearly as large or active as the salt community. A few other nice tools would be collins[1] and graphite[2]. If you use OpenStack horizon, it is using graphite under the covers. Disclaimer: I'm also a developer / co-maintainer of graphite. You can join us on #graphite via IRC on FreeNode. The graphite project just released 0.9.12 and is about to start moving forward much faster. For metrics collection... I'd suggest collectd[3] with the write_graphite plugin or diamond[4]. Same as here, I'm SEJeff on IRC. [1] http://tumblr.github.io/collins/ http://tumblr.github.io/collins/ [2] https://github.com/graphite-project https://github.com/graphite-project [3] http://collectd.org/ http://collectd.org/ [4] https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond/wiki https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond/wiki