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SlickStack vs Puppet Bolt: What are the differences?
What is SlickStack? LEMP stack automation for WordPress. SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.
What is Puppet Bolt? An open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. It is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use it to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow.
SlickStack and Puppet Bolt can be categorized as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.
Some of the features offered by SlickStack are:
- CloudFlare
- Ubuntu
- Nginx
On the other hand, Puppet Bolt provides the following key features:
- Prebuilt tasks
- Automate deployments
- Open source
SlickStack and Puppet Bolt are both open source tools. Puppet Bolt with 313 GitHub stars and 148 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than SlickStack with 190 GitHub stars and 41 GitHub forks.
Pros of Puppet Bolt
- Simple3
- Easy to Install2
- Powerful2
- Agentless2
Pros of SlickStack
- WordPress exclusive0
- Designed for Ubuntu LTS0
- Dependency-free0
- Idempotent installation0
- Works on any cloud VPS network0
- Free OpenSSL certificates (that never expire)0
- 100% open source (better security and transparency)0
- Native Bash commands (no learning new shortcuts)0
- Includes MU plugins for technical SEO, etc0
- Built-in WordPress plugin blacklist0
- Redis object caching enabled by default0
- Nginx FastCGI Cache enabled by default0