[folken]

What people don't get about salt, is that its literally kubernetes (as in orchestrator) for your infrastructure.

It takes the "operator" concept to a very new level: You can tell it to react automatically and enlarge a disk in a machine due to space constrains, reschedule workloads according to load, configure a loadbalacner according to rules you write once, create resiliency rules, deploy new machines or containers...

It scales ridiculously, i have seen 30000 minions to a master.

Why you would use it via ssh other than bootstrapping is beyond me...

btw: you can run ansible via the salt bus transport = salstack in the ansible.cfg, be amazed.

[busterarm]

This is exactly what I was eluding to with this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863836

Thank you for putting it more cleanly.

I don't necessarily always think that's the right thing to do though, but within limits, yes. It can do things you would otherwise have people respond manually to.

Putting out fires sucks.