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A Taste of Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck April 25, 2013 by Corey Quinn 21 Comments Have you gotten frustrated with Puppet? Corey Quinn offers an impassioned argument for his favorite open source alternative. If you’re responsible for the care and feeding of multiple servers, and you haven’t heard about configuration management yet, you have not been paying attention. CFengine was one of the first configuration management systems that was deployed in anything approaching widespread use, and was followed later by Puppet and Chef. A bit over two years ago, Salt Stack‘s ”Salt” entered the market, and took a radically different approach to the problem of “configure all of my servers to do X.” Salt started life as a remote execution system: a class of software applications written to address concerns of the form, “I have this command I want to run across 1,000 servers. I want the command to run on all of those systems within a five second window. It failed on three of them, and I need to know which three.” [censor censor censor] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
