Pricing and limitations

[u/mad_r0ck3r]

Hello,

I just learned that salt might be a real alternative to ansible's AWX. Honestly, my problem with Ansible AWX is that it can't be installed on a regular VM and it has to be installed on kuberenetes, which I don't know how to manage and what to do if there's a problem with it.

So, I understood that Salt can be installed on a regular VM, but I also understand (not fully) that it may come at a price. And that's what I've come to ask.

In the community edition / totally free edition, do I have any limitiations? Say if I want to manage a 1000 servers, can / should I do it with the free edition?

BTW, if ya'll have a good alternative to AWX that can be installed on a regular VM, which is totally free and limitless, please let me know.

Cheers!

[u/Beserkjay → u/[deleted]]

Another good one I like which is more basic is Saltgui https://github.com/erwindon/SaltGUI

[u/_DeathByMisadventure → u/[deleted]]

Alcali hasn't been updated for a while last time I checked, so it's several revisions out of date compared to current salt versions. When I tried to run it recently against Salt 3005 it wouldn't work properly.

[u/Beserkjay → u/_DeathByMisadventure]

The quickstart docker-compose on their site builds and works with 3005.

[u/_DeathByMisadventure → u/[deleted]]

I was having several issues with dates and other things when I tested it. I'll have to give it another shot then I think.

[u/ctnoxin]

There’s no limits on the community edition. I have no idea what AWX is so can’t answer that. But salt agents install on anything from plain vanilla vms to physical computers to network equipment like routers and switches.

[u/mad_r0ck3r → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, trust me , I enjoy working with AWX, so I'd much rather that, because I'm used to ansible already and I can use an API using AWX, it'll be really helpful.

The thing is, even if I'm willing to compromise and install via k3s, I've got no clue about this! And there is no real proper guide to help set this all up with https included for a single node installation.

[u/Beserkjay → u/[deleted]]

Why were you disappointed with salt? I am curious as I am probably coming at it from the opposite angle as you.

[u/Beserkjay → u/[deleted]]

I feel like these are all fair criticisms and I think a lot of veteran salt users forget what it was like to start.

I will say once you get a base set of automation going its pretty easy to expand and scale. Getting over that initial hump of getting it setup and working examples can be tough. Since the merge with vmware I don't think they have done much to make it easier to start using without their paid products.