I use SaltStack for managing a render farm consisting of 73 Ubuntu nodes. My requirements are rather simple, really: most states just install some packages, put

I use SaltStack for managing a render farm consisting of 73 Ubuntu nodes. My requirements are rather simple, really: most states just install some packages, put configuration files into place (sometimes using a template) and enable/start services. However, I can't recall a single problem when setting everything up. SaltStack is clean, simple, and just works.