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Chef vs Salt: Which One Should You Choose? | UpGuardCategory: Software, automation, yaml, ansible, puppet
Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: Configuration management (CM) and Remote Execution tools are fast becoming the tools of choice for many a sysadmin or devops pro. If you consider that the point of computing is to make our data management easier, then CM tools make are the next level of that logic – they make it easier to manage the large groups of servers that make it easier to manage our data.
It is supported by parent sponsor Opscode (which recently announced they are renaming the entire company Chef to reduce confusion), and is frequently compared and contrasted to Puppet, another older CM tool. Actually, Chef is closer in execution to Puppet than to Salt - it uses a pure Ruby DSL in the CLI, it fully supports Windows as well as Linux and Unix, and it also boasts a proper GUI (though still not as slick as Puppet’s). However, there are complaints that Chef is a muddle to understand for newbies, and the documentation is not easy to wrap your head around.
It is supported by parent sponsor Opscode (which recently announced they are renaming the entire company Chef to reduce confusion), and is frequently compared and contrasted to Puppet, another older CM tool. Actually, Chef is closer in execution to Puppet than to Salt - it uses a pure Ruby DSL in the CLI, it fully supports Windows as well as Linux and Unix, and it also boasts a proper GUI (though still not as slick as Puppet’s). However, there are complaints that Chef is a muddle to understand for newbies, and the documentation is not easy to wrap your head around.
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