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Is 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?
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/
It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
IMO, ansible is even better: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
IMO, ansible is even better: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
"Chef works atop ssh, which – while the gold standard for cryptographically secure systems management – is computationally expensive to the point where most master servers fall over under the weight of 700-1500 clients. Salt’s approach was far simpler."
Does that assertion about Chef somehow don't apply to Ansible?
On the use case:
"I have this command I want to run across 1,000 servers. I want the command to run on all of those systems within a five second window. It failed on three of them, and I need to know which three."
IMO, ansible is even better: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
I am generally able to SSH into a box and get things configured the way I need. However, I have huge amounts of trouble translating that into salt scripts.
Consider logrotate. Here is the only documentation I can find on the topic [1]. From this, I have no idea what to put in init.sls to make sure a given log file is being rotated correctly. It seems this would work on the cmdline, but not necessarily in a salt script.
And that's just for logrotate! My uswgi + nginx configuration - translating that into salt - I don't know where to begin.
How do I make sure things get installed in a certain order? (Answer seems to be having 10 directives, for 10 packages, each depending on another, to enforce order.)
Is there anything that more closely mirrors what I actually do when configuring the box? SSH in, set certain values, etc? I guess I could write a shell script (or use fabric) but then I seem to have lost the point of configuration management.
[1] http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.logro...
The ZeroMQ stuff makes sense if you're pushing configurations inside a data center, but it's a dealbreaker for us having things hosted externally.
IMO, ansible is even better: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ It doesn't require any deamon and does all its work over the good old unix fashion way: SSH. And it's python too.
From the article: "Chef works atop ssh, which – while the gold standard for cryptographically secure systems management – is computationally expensive to the point where most master servers fall over under the weight of 700-1500 clients. Salt’s approach was far simpler." Does that assertion about Chef somehow don't apply to Ansible? On the use case: "I have this command I want to run across 1,000 servers. I want the…