[ale] Automation tools...

[Beddingfield, Allen]

We are using SUSE Manager.  Essentially, SUSE has forked and heavily 
modified Spacewalk as a graphical interface for Saltstack.  It is the 
best of both worlds... I can write Salt code by hand if I want, or just 
use the GUI to make state channels the old Spacewalk way, but it is 
essentially just building an sls under the hood out of the choices 
selected in the GUI.
If you don't want to use Salt at all, the old Spacewalk functionality is 
still there and 100% usable.
It also has built in patch management.

Allen B.

On 12/19/18 4:38 PM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> Automation tools...
> 
> I started using Salt for a few months but when I discovered Ansible 
> didn’t use agents, I switched to Ansible.  Then Red Hat bought Ansible, 
> and… wow! It seems that Ansible just took off.  I see way more Ansible 
> projects and blog posts.  Also, and this is a big one… I work with the 
> government and OpenSCAP is able to produce Ansible playbooks to deploy 
> Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) to the servers.
> 
> I’m still fairly impartial on the two but I was curious what you all 
> were using.
> 
> /Raj
> 
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