ShellOps - Server Management Assistance

Product comparison

• ShellOps

  • Persona: Software developers, Webmasters
  • Interoperability: Low
  • Cloud availability: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Communication: With client using SSH
  • Two way communication
  • (+) Easy setup
  • (+) Easy to operate
  • (-) Few recipes

• Ansible

  • Persona: DevOps
  • Interoperability: High
  • Cloud availability: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Communication: SSH
  • One way communication
  • Suitable for large organizations
  • (+) in yaml
  • (+) large recipe
  • (+) community
  • (+) no client agent required
  • (-) performance comparing to other tools in list
  • (-) yaml is not flexible

• Puppet

  • Persona: DevOps
  • Cloud availability: AWS, Azure
  • Interoperability: High
  • Declarative
  • Ruby and DSL
  • Communication: SSL ( rest api ? )
  • Two way communication
  • Suitable for large organizations
  • (+) community
  • (+) reporting to understand infs
  • (-) Learning curve + Ruby

• Chef

  • Persona: DevOps
  • Cloud availability: AWS
  • Interoperability: High
  • Communication: Knife tool ( custom client )
  • Procedural
  • Two way communication
  • Suitable for large organizations
  • (+) Large recipe collection
  • (+) Integrates with Git
  • (-) Learning curve + Ruby
  • (-) Main server does not have much control

• SaltStack

  • Persona: DevOps
  • Cloud availability: AWS
  • Interoperability: High
  • Declarative
  • Python, yaml and DSL
  • Communication: SSH
  • Two way communication
  • Suitable for large organizations
  • (+) Reporting
  • (+) Simple usage after setup
  • (-) Setup is hard
  • (-) UI is less developed than other