[TriLUG] Curious

[Matt Whitlow]

Apparently I misread and I thought that your whole email was ranting about
salt I didn't see the message for Ansible. My mistake.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Matt Whitlow <matt.church.whitlow at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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