Any interest in switching to Salt for Vagrant provisioning?

[howardroark]

The main reason I would suggest this is that Salt runs entirely on the VM and can be bootstrapped by Vagrant. This removes the need to install an extra tool for anyone looking to partake. Salt acts as a messaging service first, so it does not require remote shell executions, it messages to remote machines to preform their own execution routines. It is also configured using YAML, which is very close to Ansible, at least from a Markup sense. I must admit that I could have just made an assumption about Ansible here :P

http://www.saltstack.com/community/

I'd love to give it a try. Myself and some folks have been working on a dev ops project and we have been having a lot of success with Salt in our endeavour...

https://github.com/freesurface/stackstrap

I love this idea though! If this is not really something of interest I will see if I can ponder up a UI efficiency to get a ticket on board:P

[megamattron]

I must admit ignorance regarding salt, but there have been a couple vagrant PRs merged in so perhaps you could talk to the authors there and see what they think? =

[howardroark]

Totally agree! If there are already some folks into this thing who are comfortable with Ansible, that's a good case to stick with. I was just looking at the local installation requirement and thought that might be an obstacle to loose during the setup process. Seeing that the use of Vagrant should promote the most seamless setup process possible.

I'll poke around and see what folks are up to in that sense. I'll close this for now until I can get something more concrete to offer.

Thanks!