CHchewxy·Dec 1, 2013
Salty Vagrant is good, apart from the silly name - I use it: https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant
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salty-vagrant
Use Salt as a Vagrant provisioner.
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What it is
Use Salt as a Vagrant provisioner.
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What people are saying
vagrant + http://saltstack.org/ is my favorite solution to this problem. (https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant) I'm pretty new to devops; I tried chef first and found it…
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Observed mentions: 2012-09-15 12:53:43 UTC to 2013-12-01 06:29:46 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2012 | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesWe use SaltStack for both the development environment under Vagrant/VirtualBox (https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant), and in production; and are pretty happy with this setup.
I tried looking at Chef and Puppet, and was scared away by the complexity thrown at me upfront. I find Salt way easier to pick up. I like its being declarative, concise, and unsurprising. Also, it has received a seal of approval from our admins. That doesn't happen here with software often :)
Thanks! And congratulations!
In SaltStack wins Gigaom StructureThe Salt Stack team also has a plugin built specifically for provisioning environments in Vagrant called Salty Vagrant:
https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant
(I haven't used it, but I have used -- and love using -- Salt Stack.)
In If you love automation, why is your development environment manual?vagrant + http://saltstack.org/ is my favorite solution to this problem. (https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant)
I'm pretty new to devops; I tried chef first and found it horrible; then salt came and saved me.
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