Salt vs Snap CI

Salt vs Snap CI: 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 Snap CI? Build, test, and deploy software faster with Snap's continuous integration and deployment tool. Snap CI is a cloud-based continuous integration & continuous deployment tool with powerful deployment pipelines. Integrates seamlessly with GitHub and provides fast feedback so you can deploy with ease.

Salt can be classified as a tool in the "Server Configuration and Automation" category, while Snap CI is grouped under "Continuous Integration".

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, Snap CI provides the following key features:

• Deployment Options - Heroku, AWS
• System Libraries - Your build runs on a RedHat 6-compatible system with commonly required libraries
• Customization Options - In addition to all that we support out of the box, we offer you the chance to customize your build extensively.

"Flexible" is the primary reason why developers consider Salt over the competitors, whereas "Github integration" was stated as the key factor in picking Snap CI.

Salt is an open source tool with 10.1K GitHub stars and 4.59K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Salt's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Salt has a broader approval, being mentioned in 110 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to Snap CI, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.