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Pros of Salt
Pros of StackStorm
  • 46
    Flexible
  • 30
    Easy
  • 27
    Remote execution
  • 24
    Enormously flexible
  • 12
    Great plugin API
  • 10
    Python
  • 5
    Extensible
  • 3
    Scalable
  • 2
    nginx
  • 1
    Vagrant provisioner
  • 1
    HipChat
  • 1
    Best IaaC
  • 1
    Automatisation
  • 1
    Parallel Execution
  • 7
    Auto-remediation
  • 5
    Integrations
  • 4
    Automation
  • 4
    Complex workflows
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Beautiful UI
  • 2
    ChatOps
  • 2
    Python
  • 1
    Extensibility
  • 1
    Slack

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Cons of Salt
Cons of StackStorm
  • 1
    Bloated
  • 1
    Dangerous
  • 1
    No immutable infrastructure
  • 3
    Complexity
  • 1
    There are not enough sources of information

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What is Salt?

Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds. Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.

What is StackStorm?

StackStorm is a platform for integration and automation across services and tools. It ties together your existing infrastructure and application environment so you can more easily automate that environment -- with a particular focus on taking actions in response to events.

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Terraform
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Dotenv
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