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I don't understand why ZeroMQ outside of a data center would be a deal breaker for anyone. You do realize the data on the wire is encrypted right?
Awesome. How many people have reviewed it for flaws? How many people have reviewed OpenSSH?
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.
Browsing around ansible's website, I found the "quickstart" link. From that page[0]: > We’ve recorded a free 2-hour presentation designed to ... Wait. The quickstart presentation is 2 hours?! Looking for an easier way to get started... [0]: http://www.ansibleworks.com/quickstart/
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.
Salt is all of these things as well.
I think salt is neato, but I also find it very frustrating to use! (Possibly through no fault of salt itself - I feel like I must be missing something.) 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…
>And that's just for logrotate! My uswgi + nginx configuration - translating that into salt - I don't know where to begin.
For nginx you just need a package: nginx installed state and a few states for the conf files.
uswgi will need something similar.
Salt is missing templates, the ability to use higher level programming language and all the environment/roles that I find the most powerful part of Chef.
Is there a comparable tool for Windows? Powershell works great for executing commands on arbitrary servers (which sounds like the basis of Salt), but it'd be great to declaratively say "I want the server in this state" like the config management side of salt. I assume there is a tool built atop of Powershell like this somewhere?
Salt can configure Windows machines, but you need to have the master running on *nix iirc.
I'm still looking for a configuration management system that doesn't assume that the first step towards managing servers is to add a new "master" server. From the thread, ansible looks promising. In the meantime I'll keep using chef-solo until opscode kills it.
"Salt’s approach was far simpler." Funny, that's how I feel about Ansible compared to everything else including Salt.