Salt
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.
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- Lightweight
Features
- Configuration Management
- Server Management
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- server-administration
- deployment
- remote-execution
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What is Salt?
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.
Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.
Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.
Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.
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Easier to get started than Ansible, more scalable than Puppet. Since it uses pub-sub messaging to run tasks, offline systems will be brought up to date as soon as they are online unlike Ansible, but doesn't need to run an unnecessary scheduled task over and over like Puppet. Salt combines the best them all and then some. I'm so glad I gave it a shot. I'm using it to manage Linux servers and Windows desktops/laptops mostly.
Updating offline systems isn't inherent to pub-sub, you do have to configure the minion to apply highstate on boot up (which is one line in a config file and easy to push out with Salt itself like any other config file management).
I tried out Salt, Puppet, and Ansible. Salt made a lot more sense to set up for me. It can do state management style like Puppet and task management style like Ansible and easily combine the two styles. After using it for a year, and now really trying hard to like Puppet and/or Ansible after the Broadcom purchase, I can't get over how much better Salt is... in pretty much every way. It's easier, lighter, scales better, as much if not more configuration capabilities... I think I could go on and on.
hell of a beast! dont kill yourself!