[TriLUG] Curious

[Matt Pusateri]

What I meant was, that Ansible seems more basic, you can automate with anything, even bash scripts.  But I like Salt’s architecture.  I would suggest looking at the first couple Salt Air videos on youtube to get an idea of the architecture.  They’ve done some cool things like GitFS, which is a file system backend that uses a git repository.  So if you already have your code or configs or images, etc in Git, then you can use that repo as file store to push out to everything.  Keeps you have having to check out things and keep multiple copies. Also since it’ uses zeromq, you can trigger events bases on other events.  So It’s fast, it scales well, it’s asynchronous.  It gives you the foundation for automating things in a way that ansible can’t do in my opinion.  Ansible seems better if you just want configuration management on boxes.  Salt does that and allows you to have things happen based on events.  So you can build elastic scaleability easier. or automate based on conditions.  Plus salt can use ssh if you want client less action.  Also like Chef/puppet it’s getting support for other devices like switches to automatically add the right VLANS’s etc to the switch of the box you just deployed.  Like I said, I like it’s architecture. Like anything the time you spend learning it benefits you in the long run.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMrWF9d5Vbw&list=TLdxnJtjErEkkx9SWfn2N5t6PH9480FUW2

Matt P.

On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Matt Whitlow <matt.church.whitlow at gmail.com> wrote:

> ssh on steroids sounds great to me, ssh is a well working and secure tool
> that does what it needs to. Also you just said it is bad for automating
> deployments but you like how it automates things.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Why? It's Ssh on steroids it's only benefits are no client on the remote
>> box and easier learning curve, or at least that I can see.
>> 
>> But if you're trying to automate deployments, I don't see it as the right
>> tool.
>> 
>> One thing I really like about salt, is that it's asynchronous, and has a
>> pub/sub event system so you can automate things like, oh I'm a new web
>> server add me to the LB, or hey traffic is less remove me from the load
>> balancer.
>> 
>> Matt P
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Mainguy <jon at jmainguy.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ansible > *
>>>> On Oct 26, 2014 4:09 PM, "Matt Pusateri" <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Having used CFengine, Puppet and Chef, I’m really impressed by Saltstack
>>>> and it’s architecture.  I highly recommend adding it to the list of
>> ones to
>>>> investigate.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Z-man <czdrummer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I saw the question about Puppet and just have to ask, how widely
>> used
>>>> is
>>>>> Puppet?  I am investigating it along with other librarian products to
>> tie
>>>>> into Subversion for deployment and was wondering about its adoption.
>>>> Also,
>>>>> if you use it, could you tell me what other products did you
>> investigate
>>>>> before deciding upon Puppet?
>>>>> 
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