Synapse
Infrastructure
remote system administration
SHOW HN2012
33points
13comments
#678of 1,677 in 2012
Top 41%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 0 for, 4 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks neat and interesting
From 3 comments
Wow, this looks pretty cool.
evanprodromou on HNDefinitively interesting!
jeanpierrelevac on HN``` You don't have to know about yum, apt or whatever package manager your hosts use thanks to synapse-agent's abstraction layer. ``` Except, of course, that a sysadmin who…
dsr_ on HN
Objections
Cross-distro package naming and config differences make abstraction leaky
From 1 comment
``` You don't have to know about yum, apt or whatever package manager your hosts use thanks to synapse-agent's abstraction layer. ``` Except, of course, that a sysadmin who…
dsr_ on HN
No Windows server support
From 1 comment
There's no mention of it on the video or the page, but it seems safe to presume that there's no support for Windows-based servers? Or am I just missing it?
eslachance on HN
Unclear what it improves over Puppet, Chef, mcollective, or cssh
From 3 comments
Ok, so what did you folks learn from the other projects in this space? Why is this better than Puppet, bcfg2, or cssh?
dsr_ on HNWhat makes this better than mcollective? The examples make it look very similar, but written in python.
bashtoni on HNWhy not use Puppet or Chef?
jahewson on HN
Requests
Windows support
From 1 comment
The Windows support is coming soon, it's in the features pipe-line.
raphdg on HN
Questions
Why not use Puppet or Chef
From 1 comment
Why not use Puppet or Chef?
jahewson on HN
What makes it better than mcollective
From 1 comment
What makes this better than mcollective? The examples make it look very similar, but written in python.
bashtoni on HN
Alternatives named
Salt
From 1 comment
I am looking forward to reading more about this. For a slightly different approach (Python + 0MQ) with a very active community, please check out http://saltstack.org/
akoumjian on HN
Ansible
From 1 comment
Ansible[1] is starting to look really nice. It's kind of a mix between puppet and fabric, handling configuration and orchestration in a single tool. If it didn't mean rewriting…
ominous_prime on HN
Puppet
From 1 comment
``` You don't have to know about yum, apt or whatever package manager your hosts use thanks to synapse-agent's abstraction layer. ``` Except, of course, that a sysadmin who…
dsr_ on HN
mcollective
From 1 comment
Synapse is not a puppet/chef like configuration management tool, it is used for live management & orchestration. It's in fact much more similar to mcollective and salt, which…
eschnou on HN