FAI + SaltStack anybody?

[Diego Zuccato]

Yes. They're different tools with different objectives. FAI excels at reinstalling a system, but is not a configuration manager: say you have a webserver (actually 3: dev, test and prod) and you need to change the PHP version in use. Sure, you can reinstall from scratch with FAI, but why? Way faster to just update packages. Or are you reinstalling every time there are system updates instead of using apt full-upgrade?

Diego

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Da: linux-fai <linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de> per conto di Henning Glawe <henning.glawe at mpsd.mpg.de>
Inviato: venerdì 6 ottobre 2023 17:21
A: fully automatic installation for Linux <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Oggetto: Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

Moin,

On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Does someone use FAI to install the base system that will be managed by
> Salt?

Do you have a concrete reason for introducing Salt on top of FAI?
FAI can be used to do most of your configuration management via
``fai softupdate``

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