[Freeswitch-users] SaltStack + deployment techniques

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

> It could be that I am slightly biased because I absolutely hate Ruby, and
> have a passionate love for Python.
>
> Personally, I felt that that both Chef and Puppet had been over-engineered
> to an extent, and did not feel comfortable with the syntax or layout at all.
>
> Then came along SaltStack, it supports Jinja templates (which is lovely),
> it's feature set is implemented cleanly for the most part, and it feels
> 'right'.
>

And it's also written in Python!


>
> I'm sure a more experienced person than myself could spend hours
> explaining the subtle differences, but in my own opinion, SaltStack meets
> my expectations of what CM and assisted CI should really be.
>
> Cal
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Henry Huang <red.rain.seven at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It's the first time I hear about SaltStack. Can you briefly explain why
>> is it better than Puppet or Chef. I would pick Chef out of the 2 because
>> it's using Ruby natively and is being adapted by Amazon AWS. So if you ever
>> need some kind of hybrid architecture to run production or development
>> servers on AWS, you will spend minimal effort for deploying those given
>> that you can reuse your Chef cookbooks.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
>>> <cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
>>> > I'm still not entirely happy with the overall procedure and always
>>> looking
>>> > for new/better ways to improve it.. but SaltStack is a clear winner,
>>> leaving
>>> > puppet/chef in it's dust.
>>>
>>> Sounds like you're getting close to being happy :)
>>>
>>> When we do some Salt Modules and States specific to OpenSIP and
>>> FreeSWITCH, we'll be sure to open source them.
>>>
>>> Happy hacking!
>>>
>>>
>>> Gabe
>>>
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