Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by skrebbel on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:07AM (#22575793)

Thanks!

I'm ultra confused about their marketing btw. Their website doesn't even say it's open source. You have to sign up to "try it now". It's like they don't want customers? Or are people who want to understand what they're buying not the target market, somehow?

For reference, this appears to be the Salt primer: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/system/index.html

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by deadbunny on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:13AM (#22575855)

Salt the company's marketing is atrocious, Salt the software is great.

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by NikolaeVarius on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:14AM (#22575865)

I think there is a small subset of users where open source is actually a buying decision

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by skrebbel on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:15PM (#22576387)

Sure, but understanding what the thing is, that's part of the buying decision right? I have no clue what https://www.saltstack.com/ is about.

How do I get from this:

> Drive IT security into the 21st century. Amplify the impact of your entire SecOps team with global orchestration and automation that remediates security issues in minutes, not weeks.

to "it's a provisioning tool for servers, like ansible but faster"?

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by cdcarter on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:21PM (#22578803)

The docs landing page have me an easier to grok picture of what it does, purely based on seeing what the doc headers are - https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/

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