Infrastructure automation and configuration management have become a hot topic as organizations, particularly those in the web and cloud space have continued to scale out. The first player, that helped define the space, was CFengine. Heavy weights in this space now include Puppet and Chef, and at Dell we lead, Project Crowbar, an open source effort in this area.
The new kid on the block, based in Salt Lake city, is SaltStack. Although relatively new, they count LinkedIn as one of their users. At DevOps Days NYC back in October I grabbed some time with Salt solutions engineer, Mike Ainsworth. Here is what Mike had to say:
Some of the ground Mike covers
- What does SaltStack do
- When did they get their start and how has their momentum been
- How they differ from the other players in the space
- How Linkedin is using SaltStack
- The technical details re what they are focusing on going forward
Extra-credit reading
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The new rules of configuration management – SD Times
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SaltStack to Launch Certified Engineer Program at SaltConf 2014 – SaltStack Blog
- Devops player SaltStack wins Structure LaunchPad competition and investor interest – GigaOm
Pau for now…
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