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As I have previously attempted several times in the past, I am (finally) very close to switch to OpenBSD, a more stable and reliable operating system that I like. Before starting to make the actual change on both personal and work computer, I started testing some of the tools I’m... [Read More]

One of the (many) things I like about Salt is that it doesn’t have an obscure language of its own: as I always like to say, to start automating all you need to know is YAML and Jinja, 3 rules each. For example, when you need a simple iteration you... [Read More]

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In one of my previous posts, I have presented how to install NAPALM and Salt. While Salt can be installed directly from the SaltStack Repo, very easy, using Salt Bootstrap, NAPALM requires more steps and there are a few system dependencies you may need to consider. For Salt users there’s... [Read More]

There are many common misconceptions around Salt, and very often people seem to miss that Salt is more than a configuration management product, while it is a rich orchestrator with configuration management capabilities. Yet another interesting assertion I heard recently was: “In Salt is very hard or impossible to setup... [Read More]