Ein neuer Monat, ein neuer #Uyuni-Artikel im #Linux-Magazin 🚀
Diesmal geht es darum, Systeme mit #SaltStack zentral zu konfigurieren. Neben States werden auch gängige CLI-Aufrufe und die Uyuni-spezifisches High States thematisiert.
👉🏻 https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2026/05/patch-me-if-you-can/
@lkanies @atpfm @siracusa @marcoarment I thought about why Marco and others might consider and then decide #configmanagememt is not needed… here’s where I think it shines normally, whether you use #cfengine or #puppet or #chef or #saltstack or others:
- scale / machine count / OS flavors (count of at least 150 in my experience to justify the investment, while all <100 minis are on the same OS)
- expressing diversity through machine roles and profiles (all of Marco’s machines are managed the same way)
- autonomous drift repair (probably the strongest need, but Marco seems happy doing it himself)
- DSL and wrappers/macros to express intent in an abstract way (but that requires a large investment in learning that DSL)
- dedicated infrastructure for extended functionality like monitoring outcomes and triggering actions (seems not strongly needed for those minis)
I've packaged prusa_exporter and deployed everything (prusa_exporter, prometheus, loki, grafana) on my home server with SaltStack now.
I'm loving it!
Comprehensive comparison of Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and SaltStack for configuration management. Explore architecture, performance, features, and ideal use cases to choose the right tool for your infrastructure automation needs.
#Ansible #Puppet #Chef #SaltStack #Configuration Management
https://dasroot.net/posts/2026/02/ansible-vs-puppet-vs-chef-vs-saltstack-configuration-management/
Comprehensive comparison of Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and SaltStack for configuration management. Explore architecture, performance, features, and ideal use cases to choose the right tool for your infrastructure automation needs.
New Salt Releases: 3007.12 and 3006.20 are out! 🎉
Easily test and manage your Salt setups in a clean Docker container:
docker pull ghcr.io/cdalvaro/docker-salt-master:latest
🔧 Includes Salt API, production-ready config & more.
📚 Docs & usage examples.
💬 Feedback and PRs are welcome!
https://github.com/cdalvaro/docker-salt-master
Built for the community. Maintained with ❤️ by @cdalvaro
#SaltProject #SaltStack #DevOps #Docker #Containers #SaltAPI #Automation #IoT #Puppet
New blog post: How I came to know John Cage in the mountains of Western NC and regularly stumble on ways his thinking has helped me navigate complexity.
https://www.sounding.com/2026/01/20/scale-is-step-by-step/
#JohnCage #BlackMountain #Complexity #Riak #SaltStack #DistributedDatabases #DistributedSystems #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking
Finally nailed down a #Saltstack state for installing #bookstack. The automated Ubuntu script just wasn't working well for me.
Looking forward to introducing the app at $DAYJOB.
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.
Migrating Forgejo to Linode Object Storage
https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/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.
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