SaltStack
Ansible
SaltStack | Ansible | |
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48 | 411 | |
14,597 | 65,576 | |
0.4% | 0.6% | |
9.9 | 9.8 | |
5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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SaltStack
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Linux from the user's perspective - Part1: Installing Linux
Of course, booting from a disk is not the only option. If you want to automate installs across servers - you have to boot from the network. That is something you could play around with, in GNS3 for example, using FAI or your own system based on SaltStack. You could skip the installation altogether, and use a Live Image, or a Thin Client.
- Salt is the fastest, most intelligent and scalable automation engine
- Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
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Salt Exporter: the story behind the tool
In the new style, when the tag is longer than 20 characters, an end of tag string is appended to the tag given by the string constant TAGEND, that is, two line feeds '\n\n'. When the tag is less than 20 characters then the tag is padded with pipes "|" out to 20 characters as before. When the tag is exactly 20 characters no padded is done. source: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/utils/event.py
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Why would anyone need AD/AAD when you can manage devices through Saltstack?
https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/chocolatey/choco https://github.com/nextcloud https://github.com/authelia/authelia https://github.com/grafana/grafana
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Is Chocolatey v2.0 now the stable CLI version?
SaltStack
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Probably asked before, but any opinions on Ansible against Salt
One thing that really irks me about Salt, though, is that they are very slow to fix bugs. My Salt states are littered with workarounds for bugs that have been open for multiple years. Even in basic things, like ssh authorized_keys management. Other than bug velocity, though, I've been pretty pleased with Salt.
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NetworkManager with salt
Here are several related GitHub issues: - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/54791 - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57541 - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/16089
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What's new in Salt 3006 Sulfur LTS
For clarity, here's the issue: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64111
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Someone needs to fork salt, VMware has all but abandoned it.
Nightly builds on supported branches & master running the full test suite, producing fully tested builds. https://github.com/saltstack/salt/actions/workflows/nightly.yml
Ansible
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SDK-Driven Development: A Litmus Test for Good Software Design
Also for systems administration and DevOps, I first used Ansible to streamline the management of our servers. Writing playbooks is OK, but going beyond that to convert them to roles is a good practice from collaboration perspective. This SDK approach worked quite well for me and my team. Now, I am developing NixOS modules for various services we deploy. In both cases, the goal is to compose well-defined and documented modules (SDK) into a complete system in a few lines of code (application).
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Getting Started with DevOps
Ansible,
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Again self-hosting! on k3s
You can use GitHub repos as RSS links and received notification about new releases. If you're using miniflux just past https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases.atom
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That's a Lot of YAML
That said, I can't readily imagine why you couldn't do exactly what you said because the AnsibleModule[1] contract is JSON over stdin/stdout (and one can write Ansible modules in any programming language[2] - they just default to Python)
1: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.18.4/lib/ansible/...
2: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.18/dev_guide/develop... and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.18.4/test/integra...
- The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
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Top 17 DevOps AI Tools [2025]
Ansible provides streamlined automation for IT orchestration and configuration management through its declarative language. Teams can efficiently define and execute automation tasks, ensuring consistent environment management. This tool provides simplicity and effectiveness making it a valuable tool for managing complex IT infrastructures at scale.
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Let's Build Together: A Local Playground for Apache Polaris
A key aspect of this starter kit is its comprehensive automation using Ansible. The polaris-forge-setup directory houses Ansible playbooks that:
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Automating Deployment of Flask and PostgreSQL on KVM with Terraform and Ansible
Hi, in this post, we will use Libvirt with Terraform to provision 2 KVM locally and after that, we will Deploy Flask App & PostgreSQL using Ansible.
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Getting Started with Ansible: A Complete Guide to IT Automation
Ansible GitHub Repository
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Kubernetes homelab - Learning by doing, Part 6: Automation
Ansible is an open-source tool that excels in infrastructure configuration. With an agentless architecture (no services need to be installed on the managed machines), it communicates with machines over SSH.
What are some alternatives?
Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts
pyinfra - 🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.