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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by regularfry on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:31AM (#5939264)
> if your system image includes 10-100TB, it could be argued that the problem of size really lies in earlier design decisions.

Without disagreeing with your conclusion about the design process, it's useful to note that this situation simply isn't a problem for a conventional configuration management tool.

> On the contrary, generation should be automated.

One could argue that Puppet and Chef are ideal tools for performing that automation.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by contingencies on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:20AM (#5940060)
this situation simply isn't a problem for a conventional configuration management tool

Sure. But loads of other stuff is. The weight of tradeoffs is clearly against PFCTs here.

One could argue that Puppet and Chef are ideal tools for performing that automation.

Absolutely agree - but not within live infrastructure. Only build.

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