SaltStack Previous Solutions

reviewer1300365 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager - Site Reliability and Software Enginee at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Prior to this, we used Puppet/SaltStack open-source. The Puppet solution had scale issues, and SaltStack Open Source didn't have the SecOps product

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JM
Systems Administrator, Deployment Specialist Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have used Chef. Chef is harder to teach, so it is more difficult to build an internal community around the toolset.

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it_user514338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Devops Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

This organization I work for used Altiris before, but we switched to Salt to scale into AWS.

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it_user560271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Systems Engineer Lead Dev Ops at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am not aware of any previous solutions.

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it_user538251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Full Stack Web Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution as we are new to using DevOps management tools, but we researched others before we decided on SaltStack as our tool of choice.

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it_user514326 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Specialist at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I did not previously use a different solution.

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it_user674058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Engineer/Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I was using more of a Frankenstein automation solution previously, and the reason for switching was the capability of SaltStack, performance, and ramp up time (ease of use).

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it_user519393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I previously used Puppet. I switched because our shop here likes using Python solutions over Ruby ones.

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it_user519714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Devops at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I did not previously use a different solution.

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it_user516060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We were not using any other solution for our configuration management.

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it_user513414 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

SaltStack was my first choice because it is open source and was reviewed extensively as a good choice because of the low learning curve.

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it_user516087 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I previously used multiple solutions combined; harder to manage. Salt is easy to use and manage.

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it_user12228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a cloud provider with 501-1,000 employees

I've used Puppet at a previous job. Salt is the tool that was in place at my current job.

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it_user535242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Operations and Infrastructure at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated Chef, CF Engine, and Puppet and we ultimately decided on SaltStack because:

  • It is written in Python: Introspecting the code base, committing fixes and improving on the tools were easy for us to do.
  • The amount of tools already baked in the product and the extensive list of formulas made available by the community.
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it_user518769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Engineer (DevOps) at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I did not previously use a different solution.

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it_user526347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We previously used CFEngine 2 and Chef; both solutions have a steep learning curve that requires a ton of domain-specific knowledge. Salt is configured from the ground up in YAML files and Python, so there's less domain-specific knowledge required and no hidden configuration files.

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it_user540225 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

This is the first solution I have used.

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it_user514269 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

We were previously using SCCM and SCOM. We have brought in SaltStack and it is slowly taking over those two spaces. SaltStack is a great orchestration tool, but not intended to be used for monitoring. We are looking at switching over to Zenoss for our monitoring solution.

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it_user518751 - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not previously use a different solution.

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it_user516870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

This was our first foray into the configuration management space. Previously, it was a bunch of PowerShell scripts.

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it_user521385 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

We previously used Puppet, which was not suited for my current workload. We chose SaltStack because Ruby wasn't the language used by my team and we needed a master-client solution as opposed to a master-less one.

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it_user515826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I previously used Puppet and found SaltStack to be better in terms of configuration. It’s written in Python, which means easy integration, and the structure is YAML, which is very simple.

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