Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?
I wish that Ansible would work with orchestrating Docker containers.Here's my thought - Docker is replacing the use case for using Ansible/Chef/Puppet for a lot of people. It is far too easy to build portable docker machines and deploy them on bare metal. For me, the use case of provisioning a softlayer server and then setting it up using Ansible/Chef is no longer present.However, the problem of orchestrating a bunch of Docker machines is still unsolved. I was hoping that Fig would solve it, but by their own admission [1], Fig is going to be closely tied to Orchardup and not intended for general use.So, if I want to launch a hadoop cluster over 20 Docker VMs, physically hosted in 5 different servers... I really have no way today. Notice, that the complexity includes setting up bind-volume mapping, logging, passing of variables from one Docker VM to another, etc.I'm not sure if Chef is more suited to this, given that Octohost moved from Ansible to chef for a Docker PAAS [2], but I would definitely love for Ansible to do this part really well ![1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8075705[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086092