Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by reledi on Friday June 28, 2013 @09:34AM (#5957853)

Thank you, your explanation finally made me clearly understand what these tools are for. I constantly hear about them, have read their landing pages, and even listened to a talk on Vagrant + Puppet, but still didn't understand what it is exactly that these tools do (and do differently).

Vagrant doesn't need more marketing, but it -- and the other tools -- do need to explain clearly what it does (and does not) do in a way that non-DevOps folks can understand. Perhaps the easiest way to do that is with a simple use case.

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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by nbouscal on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:37AM (#5958196)

I couldn't agree more that most of the tools in this area could benefit from some better explanations and best practices. The development is happening at such a rapid pace that it becomes very difficult for a newcomer to figure out what's going on. I talked to someone at Opscode about it yesterday and he agreed, and said that it's something they are working on, so hopefully this will get better soon.

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