15 engineers on Hacker News describe using SaltStack first-hand: 4 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we replaced a mix of push-based Ansible, Salt, and Puppet with a fully pull-based Ansible system that solved most of the problems of these centrally-controlled push-based systems.”
regret · production · skywhopper · 2025-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With management tools like Salt, it really makes it easy to mange”
endorse · production · jlawer · 2015-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Clean separation of concerns between Vagrant (VM mgmt), Salt (provisioning and controller), and Docker (code) goes a long way”
endorse · production · simple10 · 2015-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Salt is terribly immature at the moment (I know because I use it professionally) I really wouldn't trust it for running tasks”
regret · production · KaiserPro · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Saltstack in conjunction with Mesos to build out this full datacenter-as-OS stack. Works... :-)”
endorse · production · 23david · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“salt covers all of puppet's use cases, with advantages in terms of both performance and extensibility.”
endorse · production · sergiosgc · 2014-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the thing that lets salt down is its appalling documentation, poor support (the IRC channel has been practically useless) and complex terminology”
regret · production · ermintrude · 2013-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At worst case, we distribute them with saltstack. Otherwise we just use scp, maybe a small wrapper script.”
neutral · production · bayindirh · 2024-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our solution (MetalK8s, it's open source, PTAL) uses a tech 'half as good' as K8s (SaltStack, not Ansible or Puppet) because you need something to deploy/lifecycle said cluster”
neutral · production · nicolast · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“machines management? none (we use a homebrew system based off salt)”
neutral · production · BrandoElFollito · 2019-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SaltStack supports it so even on Windows we use Python3.”
neutral · production · dijit · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have an "application" state template in our salt config”
neutral · production · mtanski · 2016-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“laid over some existing provisioning system like salt, ansible (or just a whole shit ton of puppet work)”
neutral · production · KirinDave · 2015-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The split between kube-up and Salt is also not exactly elegant.”
neutral · production · justinsb · 2015-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It basically outsources all of the work to a salt state.”
neutral · production · rgarcia · 2013-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?