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What's a good alternative to Chef?
There's pyinfra ( https://pyinfra.com , full disclosure: I built it). Ansible, Salt have been mentioned already. Also CFEngine and Rudder might be worth a look.
Thanks a lot for building this!
It's confirmed then. Absolutely nobody wants to buy Puppet. Anyone know why that fell through?
From my viewpoint, Puppet's portfolio is comprised of mostly half-baked stuff. You have Puppet itself, which is decent, and then an almost Google-level of weird stuff. They keep announcing new products but so far nothing seems to be sticking and they're all ludicrously expensive IMHO. Meanwhile, their core technology is kind of a dead end. More and more people are looking to manage containers and other serverless typ…
What is the product offering of Progress? Quickly went through the website.. not sure, but it sounds more like smoke and mirrors..
I know nothing of Progress. Are they OSS friendly? I'd hate to see some of the OSS chef-managed tools die on the vine because of this.
From the Progress press report... "We have a long history of supporting open source communities so I am proud to say that we will continue to nurture the vibrant and thriving Chef open source community."
Some of its products (e.g. Telerik Kendo, NativeScript) have open source versions. There's also Fiddler Network and JustAssembly/decompiler.
While I can't comment on the exact problems because I didn't use it personally, there was a recurring mentions of losing states, seemingly destroying systems and configurations instead of setting things up. People were adamant that moving away from Chef was the best thing they've done lol, which I don't know about but I take at face value after the third person saying the same thing.
I know nothing of Progress. Are they OSS friendly? I'd hate to see some of the OSS chef-managed tools die on the vine because of this.
From the Progress press report... "We have a long history of supporting open source communities so I am proud to say that we will continue to nurture the vibrant and thriving Chef open source community."
I know nothing of Progress. Are they OSS friendly? I'd hate to see some of the OSS chef-managed tools die on the vine because of this.
What's a good alternative to Chef?
What's a good alternative to Chef?
Historically there were 4 main configuration management tools: puppet/chef/ansible/salt.
The first two faded away. They're unarguably not the most usable and require to program in ruby. The next generation ansible/salt came out and arguably did better on every aspect.
I think it's fair to say that ansible is the safe standard (redhat acquired it few years ago, they maintained and extended it pretty well). Ansible is very easy to use and to integrate in anything as long as you have SSH access.
The only downside of ansible is that it can get slow with thousands of hosts to manage (gotta establish SSH connections). Salt can do better with large amount of hosts.
My 2 cents on Chef is that's it's long dead. The handful of people I know who used chef professionally all gave strong negative feedback about it and moved away to ansible. While I can't comment on the exact problems because I didn't use it personally, there was a recurring mentions of losing states, seemingly destroying systems and configurations instead of setting things up. People were adamant that moving away fro…
Plus, they have been diversifying their products in recent years with things like Habitat (application packaging/deployment) and security/compliance tools (InSpec).