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		reactor on Feb 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternati... Also there is cdist (http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/) not so popular but interesting.

pekk on Feb 19, 2013 [–]

It seems that cdist recipes must be written as shell scripts.

telmich on Feb 19, 2013 | [–]

That is absolutely right - and thus your sysadmins do not need to learn a new language / DSL. cdist is mostly about being simple

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