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'.

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@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@gundy.org> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
<cal.leeming@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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