Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
by contingencies on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:24AM
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A client who asks for 100% uptime will end up disappointed.
Sure.
[...] I don't think there's a fundamental advantage to full-system deployment that can't be matched by a thought-out application of conventional configuration management.
OK, on the face of it, this is a fair line of reasoning. If we assume, however, that we are looking for ... replication (say, for the purposes of regression testing, etc.) then we really do need to know that the entity in question is the same as the last time it was .. err .. generated/instantiated. With the process you propose, there is clearly higher risk here. That is a paradigm weakness.
Sure.
[...] I don't think there's a fundamental advantage to full-system deployment that can't be matched by a thought-out application of conventional configuration management.
OK, on the face of it, this is a fair line of reasoning. If we assume, however, that we are looking for ... replication (say, for the purposes of regression testing, etc.) then we really do need to know that the entity in question is the same as the last time it was .. err .. generated/instantiated. With the process you propose, there is clearly higher risk here. That is a paradigm weakness.