Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

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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