I m not a Puppet users but a Chef one. Initially I was considering that the language behind the conf management didn't matter.
But I realise that it affect my understanding of the tool because I m not able to read the source code as easily that I can do in most of Python tool that I use to understand their inside mechanism. And even If I can read ruby to some extend of some black magic, it leaves me dependent on what the documentation provide me. I personally feel the need of tool that I can own. Since a year that I follow this project, I amaze by the progress that they have done by a keeping a tool easy to get started. R. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, John Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Rachid Belaid wrote: > > Hello, >> >> I have been in touch with the people behind Salt Stack : >> http://saltstack.org/ >> >> One of the developers is coming next week to do some training on Salt. >> > [...] > > The usual suspect in this field is puppet. Puppet has a lot of users, so > presumably a lot of canned, working configuration components. So, a > question for those more clued-in than me about puppet: What problems does > it leave us with -- through omission or commission -- that Salt Stack > solves, or might solve? Problems *other than* not being written in Python! > > (Like perhaps lots of people, I've worked with in house home-grown > puppet-like systems, but not puppet itself.) > > The github readme focuses more on features than the problems that it > solves over the status quo, and does not mention puppet, but hints at > problems in other systems with: > > * covering the whole range from small to large numbers of hosts > > * working with multiple geographical sites > > and in the Randall Schwartz interview video, I think these were mentioned: > > * execution time for operations on large numbers of hosts, and where > the command to run depends on information gathered from those hosts > rather than from a central database > > * lack of polymorphism across systems (example mentioned was a > generic "install this package" command in Salt) > > * verbosity of puppet configurations > > > If you consider being written in Python significant (and I guess I do, to > some extent) the same question goes for bcfg2, and any other similar tools > written in Python. And also for <favourite deployment system here>! > > > John > > ______________________________**_________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-uk<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk> > -- Rach Belaid Director at Iron Braces Ltd Flat 9 240B Amhurst Road, London N16 7UL Phone : +44 75 008 660 84 VAT : 114 2764 36
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