Salt
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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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- POX added Server Management as a feature to Salt
- POX updated Salt
- updated Salt
pkorsukov added Salt as alternative to Crossbill Seeder- jdinkel reviewed Salt
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...
- jdinkel added Lightweight as a feature to Salt
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- Updated Jan 16, 2025
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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).
Reply written Apr 16, 2024
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!