[ale] Automation tools...

[Jerald Sheets]

But then when you compare market numbers of the various distress against each other, SuSE is a small component of the overall market comparatively, and thus… so is SALT.

—j

> On Dec 20, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.