Puppet, Ansible, Chef or Salt and why

>>57142559
Read https://valdhaus.co/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-ansible.html. Spoiler: Ansible wins.

>>57142589
ansible docs are garbage considering it is a paid service. Salt does what it needs to do without the price. There is a reason CISCO is using it for their VIRL deployments despite that chef is a ubuntu thing.

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My name is chef

wait, what? These things are still around? I thought the entire world had already moved on to Kubernetes.

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>>57142559
>decide to provision server using fancy new provisioning framework of the month
>manage to conjure something up
>server finally setup
>fast forward a couple of months
>need to redo server
>forgot 90% of what I need to do to set the damn thing up in whatever I was using
>shit is broken anyway because I updated my system and theres a missing package or some shit
>give up, decide to set everything up manually instead

>>57143154
>hahaha le youtube memes XD
reddit pls go

Ansible by a mile
Easy to write a script all you need is ssh and you're good to go. Puppet apparently needs min. 3 gigs ram max kek

>>57143240
Oh dear.

>>57143133
Ansible is not a paid service, only Ansible Tower is. Ansible itself has okay docs. I didn't find them especially good or bad.

I use chef. It's really easy to setup and Ruby is a dead simple language. Plus it has great AWS support because I have a job.

>>57142559
Puppet if you're a corporate wageslave.

Chef if you like Ftagn.

Ansible - garbage docs but the easiest to do shit with fairly quickly.

Source: We use all three at my job right now, slowly moving all of our shit to ansible exclusively.