Mastodawn

I would be careful if you see anything with salt in list_upgrades as the restart of the salt minion will mean you wont see what happened

zypper lu == salt -N v pkg.list_upgrades
zypper dup == salt N -v pkg.upgrade
zypper ps == salt -N -v pkg.services_need_restart

but otherwise this can be a nice way to upgrade a bunch of machines at the same time.

#saltstack #opensuse

KungFuDiscoMonkey Nov 19

Migrating Forgejo to Linode Object Storage
https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/migrating-forgejo-to-linode-object-storage/

#Forgejo #Gitops #Saltstack

Migrating Forgejo to Linode Object Storage

The default for Forgejo is to use local storage but I wanted to migrate to Linode (Referral ) Object Storage for better scaling since I am using a lower spec VM for my instance. I found the post Upgrading Forgejo with S3 Object Storage which gave me a good starting point.

PaulTraylor.net

Freifunk Frankfurt a.M.Oct 26

Roughly 8 years 8 month 8,888 days we started to develop #SaltStack nowadays only #Salt or #SaltProject
What a time, thanks to everyone who contributed!
#FFFFM #Freifunk #Frankfurt #AS64475

__sharky__Oct 23

I was never satisfied with the variable loading of states in #saltstack . Maybe if you work everyday you will get it, but I don't write a lot of states and only a few times I need a states which had to be written for linux and freebsd, but than I did know what will overwrite what. Today I got introduced to the !py renderer .... mindblow #pyhton #iac #devops

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Теодор Златанов / Ted Zlatanov Oct 22

@mawhrin I think #saltstack is a good choice, the community is pretty decent both in size and in attitude. I feel they will endure through the Broadcom ownership. Currently that’s the best option IMO.

#cfengine is around if you’re looking for speed but the community is small. #mgmtconfig is very new, just had a first release, fun for hackers, and there’s no large company in charge, and of course @purpleidea is awesome.

#ansible is a workhorse, reliable, large community. Puppet and Chef I would not recommend nowadays.

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KungFuDiscoMonkey Oct 22

@willegible @mawhrin It make me sad because overall, the design of #saltstack feels really well done! The plugin system works great!
By trying to support too much in core, they overstretched themselves, and this is the result :(

Naively, I was hoping after the module migration ( https://saltproject.io/blog/the-great-salt-module-migration/ ) they would be able to focus better, but a lot of that work seems to have stalled as well.

The salt-bootstrap domain snafu also made me sad about the future maintainability from the core team.

Saltproject.io - The Great Salt Module Migration

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦Oct 21

chat, is saltstack still viable or is it dead, expired, ceased to be, bereft of life and killed by broadcom?

and if not saltstack, then what?

(i know puppet, chef and ansible well, and am looking for a recommendation about a configuration management tooling of near-production quality that preferably isn't one of the three above)

#SaltStack #Puppet #Chef #Ansible #ConfigurationManagement #CMS