[TriLUG] Curious

[Justin Parker]

At least for me salt is more system administrator oriented and not as focused on the code which is nice. And the pub/sub architecture is freakin awesome.  But there is a bit more flexibility with puppet and chef because it is morse code centric.

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> On Oct 26, 2014, at 5:15 PM, jason tower <jtower at cerient.net> wrote:
> 
> i'm using cobbler+ansible at $JOB (replacing a puppet setup) and it's terrific.  cobbler handles the bare metal OS install and puts the necessary ssh key in place, then ansible takes over and automates packages, configs, etc.
> 
> puppet is arguably more powerful and flexible but for smaller or less complex environments ansible kicks ass.  its also VERY easy to learn and deploy, even a novice can be pushing out ad-hoc commands in a matter of minutes and simple playbooks within half an hour.
> 
>> On 10/26/2014 04:57 PM, Matt Whitlow 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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