Compare to other tools

[bonndan]

Very interesting project. I thought you might add a few lines in the project description comparing posixcube to ansible, salt, chef, puppet etc. What are the pros and cons?

[kevgrig]

Good idea. I'll have to research those more to make a fair comparison...

[kevgrig]

Another tool: https://pressly.github.io/sup/

[kevgrig]

And another: http://www.fabfile.org/

[kevgrig]

I like the idea of using some real-world example/use case for comparison, such as the one discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386294

[aero]

Similar tool: https://github.com/bltavares/kickstart

[aero]

https://github.com/pch/welder

Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522520

[kevgrig]

This is good to keep a running list of alternative projects. I haven't reviewed them yet and maybe some support this, but one key requirement that I have (which posixcube supports) is to allow encrypted key=value files (which are uploaded, decrypted, and then deleted).

[aero]

http://www.bashbooster.net/

BashBooster – simple provisioning, bash only, requires nothing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344070

[aero]

Bashible: An Ansible-inspired deployment/automation tool written in Bash DSL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669565

https://github.com/mig1984/bashible