Because configuration management is about a lot more than "running ssh in a 'for' loop."
I've been using CfEngine for about a decade and recently moved to a puppet infrastructure. I can say with confidence that there are times when you want to have more control over what your configuration management system does than to run a sequence of commands on a set of hosts. If all you use it for is to boot-strap a system then a series of commands (properly customized for environment, operating system, role, etc.) is sufficient. If you want to *manage* the configuration of the system after it has been deployed then you need additional logic to, for example, avoid installing the same package every half hour, detect if something on the system has changed and take a specific action, update a package to a specific version only on hosts running a specific version of an operating system, etc. Sure, you can do anything with a command, and puppet has it's own limitations, but ask yourself /why/ you are implementing configuration management and choose the right solution for your environment. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> wrote: > Intrigued… I’d like to hear a (reasoned) argument against using Salt, > especially for those of us on the cusp of rolling out a new config mgmt. > system…**** > > ** ** > > *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] *On Behalf Of *Corey Quinn > *Sent:* Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:58 AM > *To:* LOPSA Discuss > *Subject:* [lopsa-discuss] Saltstack Blog Post**** > > ** ** > > I haven't picked a fight in a while, so I wrote a blog post about Salt.*** > * > > ** ** > > > http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/283535/A-Taste-of-Salt-Like-Puppet-Except-It-Doesn-t-Suck > **** > > ** ** > > -- Corey**** > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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