SaltStack
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: (by saltstack)
StackStorm
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html (by StackStorm)
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| SaltStack | StackStorm | |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | 20 | |
| 13,125 | 5,455 | |
| 1.1% | 1.8% | |
| 10.0 | 9.8 | |
| 2 days ago | 15 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
SaltStack
Posts with mentions or reviews of SaltStack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-04.
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What is going on? Someone is speaking to me in my head.
It's definitely some sort of AI script. Not this exactly, but something working off Python or scripts of thar nature. https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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Puppet to saltstack, 5 months in.
repo: 'https://repo.saltproject.io'
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Ansible clone how to
Otherwise, in addition to ansible-core, there's other config management projects written in python like salt or fabric that you could perhaps draw inspiration from.
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salt-master gitfs Failed to retrieve list of SSH authentication methods: Failed getting response
Reference: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57121.
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Unveiling the Idem Project: Cloud Automation Without the Code
This month, we announced the long-awaited launch of Idem, an open source tool that simplifies cloud-management automation by reducing configuration to data (instead of code) — making it easier to maintain, discover, and use. Idem is a complement to the open source project Salt (created by SaltStack, which VMware acquired in October of 2020). While Salt was built to automate the process of systems configuration (such as databases and applications running inside virtual machines), Idem automates cloud configuration, settings, user management, and resource creation. If you’ve used Salt, you’ll find Idem familiar and easy to navigate. Together, Idem and Salt form a full automation solution.
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GPG encrypted Pillars not working at work, but at home they do
Source kinda indicates that it needs to be set too: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/pillar/gpg.py
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Show HN: I made a playing card game to help me teach my daughter Python
hehe i didnt want to put `between 1 and` because of the salt fiasco https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...
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3% of 666 Python codebases we checked had a silently failing unit test
https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/pull/358 https://github.com/b12io/orchestra/pull/830 https://github.com/batiste/django-page-cms/pull/210 https://github.com/carpentries/amy/pull/2130 https://github.com/celery/django-celery/pull/612 https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/7241 https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/3867 https://github.com/esrg-knights/Squire/pull/253https://github.com/Frojd/django-react-templatetags/pull/64 https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer/pull/474 https://github.com/jazzband/django-silk/pull/550 https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/16073 https://github.com/ministryofjustice/cla_backend/pull/773 https://github.com/nitely/Spirit/pull/306 https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/1987 https://github.com/rapidpro/rapidpro/pull/1610 https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/22396 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/61647 https://github.com/Swiss-Polar-Institute/project-application/pull/483 https://github.com/UEWBot/dipvis/pull/216
- Question On Salt (command line)
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__salt__ is not defined
Have a look at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/master/tests/pytests/unit and https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/development/tests/unit.html
StackStorm
Posts with mentions or reviews of StackStorm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
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We built Activepieces to replace Zapier + learnings from last post
What differentiates this from things like n8n, node red, and stackstorm? (which sort of occupy a zapier replacement, IoT automation, and infra automation niche, respectively)
- SRE: What tool do you use for Incident Response Runbook/Playbook
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Hacker News top posts: Nov 24, 2022
StackStorm: Event-driven automation\ (17 comments)
- StackStorm (a.k.a. “IFTTT for Ops”) is event-driven automation
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What Open Source Projects Do You Use In Your District?
StackStorm -- "IFTTT For Ops" I am investigating the different integrations to see if it can help automate some things.
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free-for.dev
stackstorm.com — Event-driven automation for apps, services and workflows, free without flow, access control, LDAP,...
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Event-driven Ansible looks awsome
Very cool! This reminds me of some of the event-driven automation tools like Stackstorm, letting you define triggers/events to subscribe to, and then take actions based on a defined rule set.
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Workflow automation for smaller use-cases
Closest in the Python world is Stackstorm (massive overkill for a desktop use-case, Linux only), or Dagster (great for data processing, not designed for admin tasks).
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Orchestrator self hosted
Node-Red or https://stackstorm.com? Stackstorm seems more geared towards infrastructure whereas Node-Red is more geared towards IOT. Stackstorm also has a web UI, just have to install it separately.
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Is idempotence (also) managed server-side?
I have played with StackStorm a little bit, and it could also do what you describe... but it may or may not be over-engineered for your use-case.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SaltStack and StackStorm you can also consider the following projects:
Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
argo - Workflow engine for Kubernetes
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Juju - Universal Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) for Kubernetes operators, and operators for traditional Linux apps, with declarative integration between operators for automated microservice integration.