Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
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Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
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Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#2This is timely! I've just started writing a set of salt states to capture the set up of my new dell xps 13 (sputnik) so I never have to go through the pain of setting up xmonad, emacs and various other development environment stuff again.
What I really like about salt is that everything is in one place and all goes towards building the same data structure that everything runs off.
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#3I was frustrated with Puppet when I first started. All I wanted was a VM to install a few things so I could do some development and not have to worry about managing my VM.
It turned out to be a rabbit hole. As soon as I thought I learned just enough to get it running, something else popped up that stopped me.
That's why I created PuPHPet [1]. So far the reception has been fairly positive.
At one point in my learning, I got fed up and tried Salt. I couldn't get the Salt hello-world running. I followed the directions to a T. If your tutorial is incorrect, or hard to follow just to get the most basic version up and running, it will turn people away.
Also, this was all on top of Vagrant.
[1] PuPHPet - https://puphpet.com
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#4Is communication to/from ZeroMQ encrypted? If not it seems like this wouldn't be a very secure way to configure or distribute files over anything other than a VPN or LAN?
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#5Is communication to/from ZeroMQ encrypted? If not it seems like this wouldn't be a very secure way to configure or distribute files over anything other than a VPN or LAN?
Yes, they encrypt the messages in the application layer before sending them over zmq.
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#6I just released a open-source package which enables you to create a Django centric stack on Vagrant with the help of Salt. It was indeed very easy to write. You can check it out here:
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#7"Salt’s approach was far simpler."
Funny, that's how I feel about Ansible compared to everything else including Salt.
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#8I was frustrated with Puppet when I first started. All I wanted was a VM to install a few things so I could do some development and not have to worry about managing my VM. It turned out to be a rabbit hole. As soon as I thought I learned just enough to get it running, something else popped up that stopped me. That's why I created PuPHPet [1]. So far the reception has been fairly positive. At one point in my learning,…
PuPHPet works very well for getting basic Vagrant boxes up and running. Thank you.
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#9For years I have been trying to spread the gosspel of bcfg2 because, while not perfect, I thought was a more complete system over Puppet or Chef. Bcfg2, however has some big warts of its own AND it never really caught on.
In the past few months I've been slowing converting to SaltStack and it really is everything I ever dreamed of for a CM system. Fast, easy, real-time. Lovin' it.
Re: Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
#10I was frustrated with Puppet when I first started. All I wanted was a VM to install a few things so I could do some development and not have to worry about managing my VM. It turned out to be a rabbit hole. As soon as I thought I learned just enough to get it running, something else popped up that stopped me. That's why I created PuPHPet [1]. So far the reception has been fairly positive. At one point in my learning,…
Interesting. I find the salt documentation excellent and haven't found any serious bug in it. Too bad it didn't work for you and that you gave up so soon.