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> It's the only thing out there that will allow for super low latency response to commands across the cluster. It also can do configuration management etc if yo
by gtaylor 12y ago
> It's the only thing out there that will allow for super low latency response to commands across the cluster. It also can do configuration management etc if you want, or a lot of people use it to just trigger existing chef/puppet jobs.
FWIW, Ansible also does low-latency communications through pipelining/accelerated mode. Ditto for the config management and triggering.
- res0nat0r 12y agoI don't believe even with Ansible's accelerated mode it can come anywhere close to Salt for large deployments. It is still agentless and has to run from a single source and using ssh which is going to be slower than 0MQ. Also using something like salt-syndic to create topologies can reliably scale to thousands of machines and still cope with the load.