[ale] Automation tools...

[Leam Hall]

On 12/20/18 8:46 AM, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
> That’s correct… that simply isn’t true.
> 
> Puppet, Chef, and Ansible are the kings of the automation heap.  SALT users remind me of rabid sports fans.  Their last place team always fills the stadium.
> 
> I appreciate Python and the power it represents, but SALT just doesn’t have market penetration at all.  Further, in the world of Microservices, Cloud, and ZTN, you better have some Ruby-ish chops.  You really have to change the culture of your whole department to move to a tool like SALT.  Not saying it isn’t capable, it just seems to cut across the direction of most of the rest of systems work going on today.
> 
> These are opinions and observations based on personal interaction with other teams across the country.  Not intended to pinch the butt of your particular favorite $tool.
> 
> 
> —j

I'm with Jerald on this one; Puppet and Ansible seem to be have the 
market share. Puppet has somewhat moved away from Pure Ruby under the 
hood, Ansible is Python 2.7 as of the Ansible 2.10 release, I think. 
Some movement towards Python 3 but not cut over yet.

Ansible wins if you have a diverse environment; you don't have to worry 
about "is there an agent for this OS?". If you can ssh or winrm to it, 
you're golden.

And DoD folks require passworded sudo, which Ansible supports.