SaltStack is very good on Linux. Somewhat new to Salt myself but very much like it so far with Vagrant, with OpenStack on Linux distros.
Their formulas (take a look at formulas and pillars) help make installation and configuration of packages quite seamless and convenient in pulling from Git etc. They have really responsive and knowledgeable GoogleGroup team as well. Mono On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dewey Hylton <[email protected]> wrote: > agreed - perfectly on-topic as far as i'm concerned. i currently have zero > invested in any of these cfg management tools, so i'm game to try. ansible > interested me because of its python backend, and because it's agent-less > (less going on, less to learn, and less to deal with if i don't like > ansible for whatever reason). salt at least fits one of those. > > smartos isn't the only platform i need to support, though ... i'm also > currently managing solaris 10, suse linux, redhat linux, openbsd, and > freebsd. any feel for how well salt (and/or ansible) can manage all those > platforms? > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Monosij Dutta-Roy" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected], "Nahum Shalman" < > [email protected]> > *Cc: *"Dewey Hylton" <[email protected]>, "Jamie Alquiza" < > [email protected]>, "Giorgio Valoti" <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, May 27, 2014 6:39:08 PM > *Subject: *Re: [smartos-discuss] Standalone SaltStack Builds (Re: > smartos/ansible?) > > > Hi Nahum - This is great. Look forward to trying it out and thanks for the > blog. > > Will this be merged into SaltStack? Or are they working on their own > versions? > > Thanks. > > Mono > > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Nahum Shalman via smartos-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Slightly off-topic, but still vaguely on-topic: >> >> If you prefer your config management tool to be Python based, there's >> also SaltStack. >> The developers here like it because it works well with their Django >> applications. >> Since I wanted them to put everything in SmartOS zones, I did a bunch of >> work to make >> it easy to run Salt on SmartOS. >> >> The result is a so-called "Esky" build of SaltStack similar to a Chef >> "Omnibus" build. >> I generate a tarball that you can extract pretty much anywhere you want >> that has zero dependencies on the pkgsrc tree. >> >> I have an old blog post about it here: >> >> http://blog.shalman.org/getting-started-with-saltstack-in-the-joyent-cloud/ >> And I publish the builds to Manta. I publish an index page here: >> http://www.shalman.org/salt/ >> And the latest tarball is here: >> http://www.shalman.org/salt/salt-2014.1.4-esky-smartos.tar.gz >> >> -Nahum >> >> On 05/23/2014 08:36 PM, Dewey Hylton via smartos-discuss wrote: >> >> is ruby bloat worse than the python prerequisite for ansible? just >> curious, python is one of the main reasons i'm interested in ansible. i >> know very little about ruby. >> >> i'd love to see any playbook you're willing to share, even if it's >> imperfect. i'm still just trying to learn. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Jamie Alquiza" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> *To: *[email protected], "Dewey Hylton" >> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> *Cc: *"Giorgio Valoti" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *Friday, May 23, 2014 8:21:37 PM >> *Subject: *Re: [smartos-discuss] smartos/ansible? >> >> I just started using it for smartmachines simply on the basis that >> there's shorter time between provisioning to config mgmt running. The Ruby >> bloat to get Chef kicked off was simply a killer, as much as I love the >> chef ecosystem. >> >> I'll likely have things to share when I get to refining it more, but so >> far it's gone smoothly. >> >> On Friday, May 23, 2014, Dewey Hylton via smartos-discuss < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > From: "Giorgio Valoti" <[email protected]> >>> > To: [email protected], "Dewey Hylton" < >>> [email protected]> >>> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 4:10:04 PM >>> > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] smartos/ansible? >>> > >>> > >>> > > Il giorno 23/mag/2014, alle ore 19:56, Dewey Hylton via >>> > > smartos-discuss <[email protected]> ha scritto: >>> > > >>> > > i've seen discussion on chef (today) as well as a few other similar >>> > > solutions paired with smartos. is anyone out there successfully >>> > > using ansible to manage their smartos hosts/vms? if so, i'd love >>> > > to hear about it - and to see your playbooks. :) >>> > >>> > Nothing to show ;) but I'm using it. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Giorgio Valoti >>> >>> what kinds of things are you doing with it? >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> smartos-discuss >>> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now >>> RSS Feed: >>> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25007124-9e0f051d >>> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >>> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> -ja. 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