> So why not use it as an install tool? Then your entire configuration > is recorded in and driven by a pretty simple text file. That's all you > need, so we can pre-seed that config file for automatic installs. And > we can customise that SAME file for installs configured in real-time, > because salt has excellent templating capability in the config files.
I'm not interested in *installing*: I'm interested in evolving an already installed system. AFAIU Puppet can do that, don't know about the other tools you mentioned. Stefan