I, personally, still don’t think saltstack is a configuration management tool, it’s more like a remote execution engine that allow you launch command to multiple hosts at the same time. saltstack does not do well in maintaining configuration up-to-date, or maybe it does, but we are using it in a wrong way.<\/p>\n
Now I’ve done most of my part with monitoring, after migrating to AWS I think the next thing is to review configuration management, I would still prefer CFEngine, though keep saltstack as a remote execution engine, as anyway we (read: ops) need this.<\/p>\n
So the next question is, how to migrate saltstack’s state to CFEngine’s promise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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