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Product | Inception | Control Mechanism | OS Agnostic | Enterprise Attributes | Key Relative Strength | Key Relative Weakness | Language | Bonsai Notes |
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Ansible | SSH with Python requiring root. | |||||||
Chef | Chef Agent | Yes | Provides SaaS to handle analytics and hybrid delivery models. | Focused on infrastructure as code and able to create systems from scratch. | Subset of Ruby | Has Chef Provisioning to create machines using chef-client supporting LXC, Amazon EC2 and more. | ||
Puppet | Puppet Agent using XMLRPC over HTTPS | Yes | Cluster approach with multiple masters for high availability and scalability. | Mature | Certificate management can be difficult with multiple masters. |
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Salt | SSH or Client | Development focused to be scalable and distributed. |
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Spring Config Server |
| Yes |
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