[ale] Automation tools...

[Beddingfield, Allen]

It completely depends on the user base sampled.  If you sample a group 
made of primarily SUSE customers, "everyone is moving to Salt" would be 
a correct assumption.  SUSE has based their whole suite of products on 
and around Salt over the past few years.  Their configuration management 
system is based on it, their SUSE Cloud and SUSE Enterprise Storage 
(their implementation of CEPH) is deployed with it, etc...  They mention 
the word "Salt" about as much as the word "Linux".
I keep looking for the "SUSE acquires Saltstack" notification any month 
now...
Outside of that group, you are likely to find a varied mix of what works 
best for particular organizations and sysadmins.

Allen B.

On 12/20/18 7:41 AM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> Thanks for the insight everyone. This came about because my boss mentioned
> that "most everyone" was going the direction of Salt and my experience and
> data showed that was not true.   I like it that Ansible does not use agents
> because some of my government customers absolutely do not want any agents on
> their servers, but I also like Salt because although it does require an
> agent. It is handy to see which agents are running and also not to have to
> worry about the local root password in each customer environment.
> 
> Thanks,
> /Raj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 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.
> 
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Allen Beddingfield
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Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
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