Salt xor Ansible

Pablo Suárez Hernández

B.4.042 - Tuesday 5th February 2019 - 11:20 → 12:15

Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Ansible, together with Ansible Tower brings you comprehensive enough tool for IT automation.

In this session, Pablo Suárez Hernández, Senior Software Engineer for SUSE, will break down:

  • How Salt competes with Ansible
  • How SUSE is committed to the improvements and development of Salt
  • News for the upcoming Fluorine release and future releases

Speaker Info

Pablo Suárez Hernández

Pablo holds a BEng. Computer System Engineering from University of La Laguna. Tenerife. Spain.
He is a Python Backend Software Engineer at SUSE Linux and part of the SUSE Manager & Salt Team where he is actively developing on SUSE Manager & Uyuni and its integration with Salt.
He has lots of contributions to the Salt project, such the Snapper and Kubernetes modules, core improvements and bug fixing.

Pablo is also involved in the local communities of Arduino, Raspberry-Pi, FLOSS and Linux.
Before joining SUSE he was working as Python/Django developer on different projects and companies in Spain.

He is currently developing Free Software from Tenerife, Spain.