On: Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?

[uggedal]

As someone who used Puppet for some years, went to Salt[1], then Ansible[2], I've setteled on POSIX sh[3],

1: http://git.uggedal.com/historic/states/

2: http://git.uggedal.com/historic/playbooks/

3: http://git.uggedal.com/conf

[stevekemp → uggedal]

I moved to a perl-based solution because that's a bit neater than shell:

http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/

I find it works well, each node pulls configuration from github, an rsync share, or similar, and executes locally. So there's no master in the traditional sense.

[petard → uggedal]

502? Oh the irony.