publysher/infra-example-nginx

Deploying an Nginx server on Digital Ocean using Vagrant and Salt

yigalduppen

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Why Saltstack and not Ansible?

I noticed that your blog doesn't allow commenting, so I thought I'd just leave my comment here. I hope you don't mind :)

Anyways, I noticed that you're using Saltstack, which seems to provide a great combination of Config Management & Remote Execution tools, and it's Python-based to boot! But I also noticed that Saltstack normally requires daemons to run at the target hosts in order to do it's work. You solved that problem by going the Masterless route, which is kind of touted by Saltstack as just a way to test things. So I was wondering: why not use Ansible? It also provides the same combination of Config Management & Remote Execution, is also written in Python and one of it's main selling points is that it doesn't require any daemons running at target systems, to do it's job. The one basic downside of Ansible in comparison seems to be that Ansible uses SSH by default, while Saltstack uses ZeroMQ as the communications protocol. But that only becomes a problem when talking to 700 nodes or more. Ansible also addresses this with it's Fireball mode.

I'm just curious what made you go for Saltstack :)