[ale] Automation tools...

[Raj Wurttemberg]

Thanks for the insight everyone. This came about because my boss mentioned
that "most everyone" was going the direction of Salt and my experience and
data showed that was not true.   I like it that Ansible does not use agents
because some of my government customers absolutely do not want any agents on
their servers, but I also like Salt because although it does require an
agent. It is handy to see which agents are running and also not to have to
worry about the local root password in each customer environment.

Thanks,
/Raj

-----Original Message-----

We are using SUSE Manager.  Essentially, SUSE has forked and heavily
modified Spacewalk as a graphical interface for Saltstack.  It is the best
of both worlds... I can write Salt code by hand if I want, or just use the
GUI to make state channels the old Spacewalk way, but it is essentially just
building an sls under the hood out of the choices selected in the GUI.
If you don't want to use Salt at all, the old Spacewalk functionality is
still there and 100% usable.
It also has built in patch management.

Allen B.