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Yet Another Puppet vs. Chef vs. Ansible vs. Salt Topic
- honest_joe 11y ago"(I also want to note that for your sake, if you cannot read/write ruby at the level of writing a cookbook than you should really question yourself as an administrator.)" Ruby is quite complex language. I would say more complex than Python and should not be considered standard. When you use Chef/Puppet it is obviously required but absolutely unnecessary when you have a different setup. Or perhaps you should not call yourself and administrator if you do not know all the traits of UNIX OS-es. CFengine "lost" the battle even when it's the fastest one with the smallest performance footprint.
- lotsofcows 11y agoI'm 41. I've never used Ruby. What have I been doing for the last 20 years?
- jkmcf 11y agoBut you probably could write ruby well enough to author a cookbook, assuming you wanted to invest vast amounts time/sanity in learning chef.
- cachedout 11y agoSalt dev here. :] Salt does not force you into YAML/Jinja2. It has a pluggable rendering system that includes out-of-the-box support for thin DSLs, like PyDSL and PyObjects. It's also straightforward to add additional renderers if you like:\ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/index.html https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/index.htm...
- antod 11y agoI came here to say the same thing. That's one thing I really like about Salt is the way everything is really just an easily accessible Python dictionary in the end. It's really very customisable, and does a good job of balancing simplicity vs power for our uses. I haven't used Ansible a whole lot, but it also seems really good too. It seems positioned a bit closer to the simplicity end of that continuum though that suits a lot of people.