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    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Plastic was a version control system for facilitating branching, diffing and merging. It was acquired by Unity, and its features are part of Unity DevOps. The application is no longer available for sale.

    $6.95

    per user

    Salt

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/AVMware Salt is an Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management platform that provisions, configures, deploys, and manages infrastructure components at scale. The solution utilizes an event-driven automation engine to enforce compliant software states across virtual machines, servers, containers, and network devices. The VMware Salt solution is comprised of software components from both VMware and the open-source Salt Project While the Salt Masters and Salt Minions are a part of the open…N/A
    Pricing
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsSalt
    Editions & Modules
    Cloud Edition
    $6.95
    per user
    Team Edition (on prem)
    $9.95
    per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $23.25
    per user
    Enterprise Edition (perpetual)
    $595.00
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsSalt
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details* Educational institutions receive a substantial discount on Plastic SCM licensing fees * Corporate/volume pricing is available * For more information, please contact sales at sales@codicesoftware.com—
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    User Ratings
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsSalt
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    8.4
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    User Testimonials
    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOpsSalt
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Plastic SCM is well suited for the distributed development environment, where branching and merging can easily be handled. Its a good tool for version controlling, especially for a big team which is contributing to a big project simultaneously. Situation where Plastic SCM is not at all well suited are : If the project is smaller one and need to be handled by couple of people. So in that case setting up Plastic SCM and educating people to work on it is not at all efficient
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    SaltStack is a very well architected toolset and framework for reliably managing distributed systems' complexity at varied scale. If the diversity of kind or number of assets is low, or the dependencies are bounded and simple, it might be overkill. Realization that you need SaltStack might come in the form of other tools, scripts, or jobs whose code has become difficult, unreliable, or unmaintainable. Rather than a native from-scratch SaltStack design, be aware that SaltStack can be added on to tools like Docker or Chef and optionally factor those tools out or other tools into the mix.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Version Control
    • Organizing Workflow
    • Transparency
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    Broadcom
    • Targeting is easy and yet extremely granular - I can target machines by name, role, operating system, init system, distro, regex, or any combination of the above.
    • Abstraction of OS, package manager and package details is far advanced beyond any other CRM I have seen. The ability to set one configuration for a package across multiple distros, and have it apply correctly no matter the distrospecific naming convention or package installation procedure, is amazing.
    • Abstraction of environments is similarly valuable - I can set a firewall rule to allow ssh from "management", and have that be defined as a specific IP range per dev, test, and prod.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Interface
    • Documentation
    • Learning curve
    • Unity integration
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    Broadcom
    • Managing network hardware should be more native and easy
    • SaltStack should buffer jobs and, when a client returns, make sure it is executed proberly
    • SaltStack should provide basic pillar and states structures to help get newbies started
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    We haven't had to spend a lot of time talking to support, and we've only had one issue, which, when dealing with other vendors is actually not that bad of an experience.
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    Plastic has best integration with unity - zero issues, native, straightforward. GitHub feels more stable but for smaller and or indie teams plastic s version control feels much more under control - you click, you feel safe. moreover, there is no need for extra tools such as gitkraken, gitlab, Sourcetree, fork, etc. it is really easy to develop games this way.
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    Broadcom
    We moved to SaltStack from Puppet about 3 years ago. Puppet just has too much of a learning curve and we inherited it from an old IT regime. We wanted something we could start fresh with. Our team has never looked back. SaltStack is so much easier for us to use and maintain.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Easy to use
    • Cheap
    • Better than git for us
    • Artists love it
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
    • We manage two complex highly available self-healing (all infrastructure and systems) environments using SaltStack. Only one person is needed to run SaltStack. That is a HUGE return on investment.
    • Building tooling on top of SaltStack has allowed us to share administrative abilities by role - e.g. employee X can deploy software Y. No need to call a sysadmin and etc.
    • Recovery from problems, or time to stand-up new systems is now counted in minutes (usually under eight) rather than hours. This is a strategic advantage for rolling out new services.
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