Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by cortesoft on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:02PM (#5935651)

CSIE sounds great for a certain class of users.

For me, however, it seems like it would be impossible. My team has to manage 10,000+ physical servers. We can't possibly wipe and provision from scratch every time we change configurations.

In other words, if your servers are ON Amazon's platform, use CSIE. If you are RUNNING the Amazon servers, you need something else.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by contingencies on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:58PM (#5937026)

PXE boot is a great way to automatically re-provision physical servers.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by regularfry on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:39AM (#5939327)

If one of your complaints about configuration management systems was that they're slow, this is not the answer.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by contingencies on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:26AM (#5940118)

PXE is fast. I'm not sure what your experiences are, but I'd like to hear them. I've never had an issue with speed.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by regularfry on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:25AM (#5945546)

I may have jumped the gun. I was assuming PXE to boot an imaging environment, which copies the system image to local media so you don't have a runtime dependency on the boot infrastructure. In that case, speed-wise, you've not gained anything because you've got two boot cycles and a system copy before your new server is ready.

If you're not copying the system image and simply network booting a remote image, then that doesn't apply, and yes, that can be fast.

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