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The push versus pull difference between ansible versus salt is a worthwhile design choice. In my opinion, salt does start to make sense until about when you would outgrow ansible. That said having to replace all the playbooks and. Roles written in ansible.when you outgrow it is a bummer. I don't want ansible to move away from push, but it would be nice if there was a layer to let it work both ways.

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Or you can use Ansible-pull.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm...

likewise salt also has a way to push via salt-ssh which works just like ansible without a salt-minion.

so at this point both ansible and salt can go both directions, and i do infact myself make use of that. i use pull/minions on all servers in our network, and push to those servers outside our network, because they can't reach the master behind the firewall.

although zerotier has helped solve that problem, so i'll probably be able to stop using salt-ssh soon

There is this too:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.mo...

You can reuse all the playbooks and start scaling with salt.

salt does start to make sense until about when you would outgrow ansible.

i read that as: by the time ylu outgrow ansible, salt doesn't make sense either. but the next sentence seems to suggests to switch to salt when you outgrow ansible.

i always assumed that ansible and salt solve the same problems and when you outgrow one, you'd outgrow the other too.

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