Review Dec 2016
Product | Inception | Control Mechanism | OS Agnostic | Enterprise Attributes | Key Relative Strength | Key Relative Weakness | Bonsai Notes |
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Ansible | SSH with Python requiring root. | ||||||
Chef | Chef Agent | Provides SaaS to handle analytics and hybrid delivery models. | 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. | ||
Salt | SSH or Client | Development focused to be scalable and distributed. |
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Resources
Video Review - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ansible+vs+chef+vs+puppet+