Salt vs EasyEngine: What are the differences?

What is Salt? 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..

What is EasyEngine? A command line tool to easily manage WordPress sites. It is a command-line tool for the Nginx web servers to manage WordPress sites that are running on the LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP-FPM). It is created with python and can be installed on Ubuntu and Linux Debian distributions.

Salt and EasyEngine can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.

Some of the features offered by Salt are:

• Remote execution is the core function of Salt. Running pre-defined or arbitrary commands on remote hosts.
• Salt modules are the core of remote execution. They provide functionality such as installing packages, restarting a service, running a remote command, transferring files, and infinitely more
• Building on the remote execution core is a robust and flexible configuration management framework. Execution happens on the minions allowing effortless, simultaneous configuration of tens of thousands of hosts.

On the other hand, EasyEngine provides the following key features:

• Complete Setup
• Let’s Encrypt
• Easy Updates

Salt is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 4.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Salt's open source repository on GitHub.