Salt Stack - fast remote execution manager / provisioner

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5 pointsmtrn4 comments

I want to like this but having to use a template syestem to build a yaml file seems entirely backwards to me.

As far as I can tell, templating is an addon - you can specify everything as pure yaml, also.

Templating is definitely not required - states are run through Jinja by default, but for most simple setups you won't need to template anything.

After using Puppet and Chef for small production deployments and local vagrant setups, salt looks promising in terms of performance and transparency.