Last I'd look at Salt it had no Windows support. It looks like now there is a windows build for the minion. Do you have an idea of what the support is past that? That was the primary driver for us to end up with Puppet. It had the most support for doing useful things on Windows systems. In a heterogenous environment, that's a big deal. Lots of the puppet stuff is YAML under the covers. All the fact files and other reports, particularly against the puppetDB API is YAML. Makes parsing super easy.
On May 29, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Zach McNeilly <[email protected]> wrote: > With all the talk of Puppet and Chef, I feel like I really need to jump in > and promote salt. SaltStack is easy to use, configure, and learn. It's open > source, and the community is very welcoming towards user contributions. The > community is fantastic, they quickly patch any bugs, and we really like that > it's all done in Python because we can run it on any OS we use and we're all > familiar with Python already. > > Some other benefits: > > - Salt uses zeromq instead of ssh for remote execution > - Salt uses simple rsa key pairs for authentication > - YAML is beautiful > - We've been using salt for about 8 months (rough estimate) and no one has > tried to sell us anything. > > When it came down to it, yaml, python, and salt's incredible community were > why we went with it instead of Chef or Puppet. > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:16 AM, John Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Curious: what are those Puppet warts you see? Iteration is my bugbear, but > not a huge one. > > John > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:02 AM, seph <[email protected]> wrote: > > - Which configuration management software are you currently using? > > - If you are switching systems or have switched in the past, what were your > > reasons? > > While I think puppet is vastly better than what came before it, I think > it has several really ugly language warts. Thankfully, chef fixes > them. I find having all of ruby as the language very freeing. > > I also want to strongly echo [email protected] comments about the > underlying shifts and discussion about testing and clouds. > > seph > > > > -- > John Miller > Systems Engineer > Brandeis University > [email protected] > (781) 736-4619 > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
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