[TriLUG] Curious

[Matt Whitlow]

For me that sounds perfect, thanks for the extra information.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
wrote:

> What I meant was, that Ansible seems more basic, you can automate with
> anything, even bash scripts.  But I like Salt’s architecture.  I would
> suggest looking at the first couple Salt Air videos on youtube to get an
> idea of the architecture.  They’ve done some cool things like GitFS, which
> is a file system backend that uses a git repository.  So if you already
> have your code or configs or images, etc in Git, then you can use that repo
> as file store to push out to everything.  Keeps you have having to check
> out things and keep multiple copies. Also since it’ uses zeromq, you can
> trigger events bases on other events.  So It’s fast, it scales well, it’s
> asynchronous.  It gives you the foundation for automating things in a way
> that ansible can’t do in my opinion.  Ansible seems better if you just want
> configuration management on boxes.  Salt does that and allows you to have
> things happen based on events.  So you can build elastic scaleability
> easier. or automate based on conditions.  Plus salt can use ssh if you want
> client less action.  Also like Chef/puppet it’s getting support for other
> devices like switches to automatically add the right VLANS’s etc to the
> switch of the box you just deployed.  Like I said, I like it’s
> architecture. Like anything the time you spend learning it benefits you in
> the long run.
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMrWF9d5Vbw&list=TLdxnJtjErEkkx9SWfn2N5t6PH9480FUW2
>
> Matt P.
>
> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Matt Whitlow <matt.church.whitlow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > ssh on steroids sounds great to me, ssh is a well working and secure tool
> > that does what it needs to. Also you just said it is bad for automating
> > deployments but you like how it automates things.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Matt Pusateri <
> mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Why? It's Ssh on steroids it's only benefits are no client on the remote
> >> box and easier learning curve, or at least that I can see.
> >>
> >> But if you're trying to automate deployments, I don't see it as the
> right
> >> tool.
> >>
> >> One thing I really like about salt, is that it's asynchronous, and has a
> >> pub/sub event system so you can automate things like, oh I'm a new web
> >> server add me to the LB, or hey traffic is less remove me from the load
> >> balancer.
> >>
> >> Matt P
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Mainguy <jon at jmainguy.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ansible > *
> >>>> On Oct 26, 2014 4:09 PM, "Matt Pusateri" <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Having used CFengine, Puppet and Chef, I’m really impressed by
> Saltstack
> >>>> and it’s architecture.  I highly recommend adding it to the list of
> >> ones to
> >>>> investigate.
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Z-man <czdrummer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So I saw the question about Puppet and just have to ask, how widely
> >> used
> >>>> is
> >>>>> Puppet?  I am investigating it along with other librarian products to
> >> tie
> >>>>> into Subversion for deployment and was wondering about its adoption.
> >>>> Also,
> >>>>> if you use it, could you tell me what other products did you
> >> investigate
> >>>>> before deciding upon Puppet?
> >>>>>
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