On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:31 PM, parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> in message <6CC9FCD8-EB12-4DD1-A76E-8F43C044340F at ultra-secure.de>,
> wrote Rainer Duffner thusly...
>>
> ...
>> I???ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has
>> decent support for FreeBSD.
>>
>> Anybody got experience with that?
>
> From Dan L (not me) ...
>
> http://dan.langille.org/2013/12/22/ansible-versus-salt/
>
> https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adlangille%20ansible&src=typd
>
>
> - parv
One of the reasons I've been looking at Salt recently is because of this
post in December 2014 by Craig Rodrigues, who set up and maintains the FreeBSD
project's Jenkins cluster:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-December/000693.html
Going by that post, it seems that he is leaning towards using Salt to manage the
cluster.
My hope is that if jenkins.freebsd.org is using Salt for infrastructure
management then perhaps FreeBSD support might get a boost in the Salt community.
I'm previously familiar with Puppet and am looking at Salt at the moment.
There are similar concepts between the two, e.g., pillars = hiera; grains =
facter; etc. I haven't looked at Ansible very closely, but it seems that
Salt also covers the same ground in its strong focus on orchestration.
I think all these systems are very good in their own right, but in the end
community support for your preferred OS is paramount. I'm hoping that
FreeBSD looking at using Salt for the Jenkins cluster might boost FreeBSD
support in the Salt community.
Cheers,
Paul.