On 05/27/2014 08:03 PM, Dewey Hylton 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?
This is starting to veer off-topic for SmartOS, but I do have two thoughts:
1. As Mono said, Salt is great for Linux. That's the environment where
it sees the most testing and use. The Solaris support predates
improvements specifically targeted at SmartOS, so one would hope it's
pretty good (also, some of the other improvements I've personally
contributed to Salt, e.g. in the realm of SMF support (which sadly still
could use a bit more work...) apply to Solaris as well). I don't know
about FreeBSD.
2. In theory, if the build process I run was moved to a Solaris 10 host
(a S10 branded zone would probably work too), as long as it would be
possible to get the desired version of Python and libraries installed,
the resulting build should theoretically run fine on all descendants of
SunOS 5.10 (SmartOS, OmniOS (which I'm told was able to use the existing
builds), other illumos distributions, and for those who have to run it,
Solaris 10 and up.) If there's demand for that, people should contact me
off-list and/or on IRC in #salt...
I haven't used Ansible, but I would hope that it would be happy as long
as you had Python on the client machines.
-Nahum
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