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by secstate 4525 days ago
Thanks for the great tool! I think the GUI and REST API a pay-for service was a smart decision and will hopefully allow you guys to keep building out the project while also making a living.

Not sure where the confusion about Ansible being not fully opensource comes from. And it's not as though Salt doesn't have enterprise support and tool integration that you can pay for too.

As I noted earlier, conf management has so many facets and reasons for being implemented that no one tool will ever win a battle. Honestly I'm happy to have such a wide open space right now with so many great and open source projects in it. When I started developing web apps 10 years ago, there was nothing that begins to approach the robustness of all four big players in this arena right now.

Thank you to all the hardworking contributors, paid and unpaid, to Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible. Thank you!