On 14-05-28 06:32 AM, Nahum Shalman via smartos-discuss wrote:
On 05/27/2014 08:03 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote:
agreed - perfectly on-topic as far as i'm concerned. i currently have
zero invested in any of these cfg management tools, so i'm game to
try. ansible interested me because of its python backend, and because
it's agent-less (less going on, less to learn, and less to deal with
if i don't like ansible for whatever reason). salt at least fits one
of those.
smartos isn't the only platform i need to support, though ... i'm
also currently managing solaris 10, suse linux, redhat linux,
openbsd, and freebsd. any feel for how well salt (and/or ansible) can
manage all those platforms?
This is starting to veer off-topic for SmartOS, but I do have two
thoughts:
1. As Mono said, Salt is great for Linux. That's the environment where
it sees the most testing and use. The Solaris support predates
improvements specifically targeted at SmartOS, so one would hope it's
pretty good (also, some of the other improvements I've personally
contributed to Salt, e.g. in the realm of SMF support (which sadly
still could use a bit more work...) apply to Solaris as well). I don't
know about FreeBSD.
2. In theory, if the build process I run was moved to a Solaris 10
host (a S10 branded zone would probably work too), as long as it would
be possible to get the desired version of Python and libraries
installed, the resulting build should theoretically run fine on all
descendants of SunOS 5.10 (SmartOS, OmniOS (which I'm told was able to
use the existing builds), other illumos distributions, and for those
who have to run it, Solaris 10 and up.) If there's demand for that,
people should contact me off-list and/or on IRC in #salt...
Yes, definitely off topic : )
I tested it on OmniOS and most things work. The only issue I see so far
is the package management needs to change to IPS.
Here is a discussion on the Salt mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-users/zPH0CDDDFgI
This is fantastic!!
Geoff
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