2 years ago

Category: github, automation, yaml, puppet

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: The configuration management (CM) stage is seeing a lively assortment of players as of late. Some are slowly encroaching on others’ territory; many are going head-to-head.

In this sense, Foreman is true to its name: its strengths are overseeing and managing the big picture, leaving pieces like automation to the tools that do it best.

SaltStack is known for its speed and scalability, due mostly to its high-performance architecture powered by the lightweight ZeroMQ messaging library.

A drawback to this, however, is that SaltStack is presumably on the hook to deliver more enterprise-centric features to address the needs of its large enterprise customer base.