Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ

Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by ch0wn on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:14AM (#5245020)

I love Ansible. After having used puppet and chef at the company I work for, everyone was thrilled about how easy and boiler-plate free Ansible is.

Chef is great for bigger architectures, but if your goal is to provision a limited set of servers and document it's configuration in a readable format, Ansible is truly fantastic.

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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by mpdehaan2 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:33AM (#5245168)

Thanks! BTW, I'm not sure limited applies. There are several setups with thousands of nodes and users doing some pretty complex multi-tier orchestration magic (N-tier, load balancers, monitoring outage windows, Jenkins, all integrated, etc). And you've got ansible-pull for mega-large scale if you want.

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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by nine_k on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:01PM (#5248707)

The thread starter meant, AFAICT, that Ansible scales down nicely. If you have 3-4 boxes, maybe 0MQ is overkill, and even running a a Chef client constantly is overkill.

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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by ch0wn on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:17AM (#5249247)

Exactly. Having to install chef and all it's dependencies to install nginx and a few config files in the end feels really wasteful. With ansible, there are zero server-side dependencies.

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