Senior Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2022-06-07T12:45:11Z
Jun 7, 2022
Saltstack is pretty flexible. And, especially if you're looking to do multi-platform either provisioning-time or lifecycle configuration-managment, it's one of the easier frameworks to learn.
Most of my customers, however (since they're trying to do "cattle" and not "pets"), use it less for lifecycle tasks than provisioning-time tasks. And the ones that aren't using Saltstack are generally using Ansible. Generally, if a customer is multi-platform – especially if they're Windows-centric – they'll choose Saltstack over Ansible since the latter only supports Linux-based servers as centralized configuration-managers.
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. And with the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured...
Saltstack is pretty flexible. And, especially if you're looking to do multi-platform either provisioning-time or lifecycle configuration-managment, it's one of the easier frameworks to learn.
Most of my customers, however (since they're trying to do "cattle" and not "pets"), use it less for lifecycle tasks than provisioning-time tasks. And the ones that aren't using Saltstack are generally using Ansible. Generally, if a customer is multi-platform – especially if they're Windows-centric – they'll choose Saltstack over Ansible since the latter only supports Linux-based servers as centralized configuration-managers.
@Thomas H Jones II , Thanks a lot for the response
Hi, @Kush Gupta, @Faycal Noushi, @AliceGolakiya, @Venek Otevrel @NishantSingh,
Will you be able to help @Vikas_Jain with some use cases of SaltStack?
Thanks in advance.