salty

I should try this myself, but I also rolled my own https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty In the spirit of Saltstack with full python throughout including Mako templating. It has a very simple set of operators mostly around idempotent file management and shell commands to do things like restart services. This enables very fast deploys - small changes on a small number of machines in < 10 seconds.

Interesting, I built a whole rpc / file-server ala saltstack on top of something like this: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty Been using this on a couple startups for a couple years, but it lacks polish in terms of user-friendliness. Interesting how we came to some of the same types of things - like you have .notify() - I return a result object with a "changed" flag, etc.

Was there any thought to perhaps do a version with an agent? I really like how fast Saltstack can be as compared to Ansible. I've been using my own homegrown project that does just this - Python roles, server/client, Mako templates: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty It's very very fast to do deploys on long-lived infrastructure, but it hasn't been optimized for large clusters yet; I expect the server process will be a bottleneck with many clients, but still probably faster than Ansible for most setups.

I have a couple of comments and a question: * please "set -e" and ideally "-euo pipefail" in shell scripts, because encountering an error and defaulting to "this is fine" is usually not going to produce good outcomes in a server automation suite: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/example... * if this had an "else: return 1" equivalent, it wouldn't cause the salty.py to exit(0) on a misunderstood mode: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/salty.p... * maybe this is my ignorance of saltstack, but is there no mechanism through which a sane python editor could help one know what verbs and params are available here? https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/example... For example, if those were "from salty import copy" a sane python editor could help in all kinds of ways, but with them just being i