https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm...

so at this point both ansible and salt can go both directions, and i do infact myself make use of that. i use pull/minions on all servers in our network, and push to those servers outside our network, because they can't reach the master behind the firewall.

although zerotier has helped solve that problem, so i'll probably be able to stop using salt-ssh soon

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.mo...

You can reuse all the playbooks and start scaling with salt.

i read that as: by the time ylu outgrow ansible, salt doesn't make sense either. but the next sentence seems to suggests to switch to salt when you outgrow ansible.

i always assumed that ansible and salt solve the same problems and when you outgrow one, you'd outgrow the other too.

E.g. seznam.cz (a Czech search engine) migrated from Salt to Ansible, they seem to cope ok. (There is a PDF from the LinuxDays talk last year.) Google Docs can translate PDFs even from Czech into English: https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/media/Ansible.pdf

Templated YAML really isn't pretty to work with.