SaltStack - pain-free infrastructure-as-code
April 27, 2021
SaltStack - pain-free infrastructure-as-code
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Salt Open Source Automation Engine
We use Salt Open Source Automation Engine primarily to configure our servers. It is used primarily to ensure that all servers are configured in a unitary way and that we have a central repository that defines what is deployed where. We also use it to quickly spin up test infrastructure and to configure developer workstations.
- Reproducible set up of servers
- Wide array of formulas ("packages")
- Execution time is sometime longer compared to alternatives
- Infrastructure as a code
- Separation of concerns using states/pillars/grains
- Flexible deployment - master/minion vs masterless
- Much faster turnaround in provisoning test environments
- Quicker rollout of services
Puppet was working fine for our needs. We decided to make the switch after our operating system vendor decided to stop official support for SaltStack.
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