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AWX vs Salt: What are the differences?
Developers describe AWX as "Centralize and control your IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard". AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is the upstream project for Tower, a commercial derivative of AWX. Ansible Towers powers enterprise automation by adding control, security and delegation capabilities to Ansible environments. On the other hand, Salt is detailed as "Fast, scalable and flexible software for data center automation". Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more..
AWX and Salt can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.
AWX and Salt are both open source tools. It seems that Salt with 10.1K GitHub stars and 4.59K forks on GitHub has more adoption than AWX with 6.17K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks.
Pros of AWX
- Open source1
Pros of Salt
- Flexible46
- Easy30
- Remote execution27
- Enormously flexible24
- Great plugin API12
- Python10
- Extensible5
- Scalable3
- nginx2
- Vagrant provisioner1
- HipChat1
- Best IaaC1
- Automatisation1
- Parallel Execution1
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Cons of AWX
Cons of Salt
- Bloated1
- Dangerous1
- No immutable infrastructure1
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