Yet Another Puppet vs. Chef vs. Ansible vs. Salt Topic

Salt dev here. :]<p>Salt does not force you into YAML&#x2F;Jinja2. It has a pluggable rendering system that includes out-of-the-box support for thin DSLs, like PyDSL and PyObjects. It&#x27;s also straightforward to add additional renderers if you like:\<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.saltstack.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;ref&#x2F;renderers&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.saltstack.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;ref&#x2F;renderers&#x2F;index.htm...</a>

&quot;(I also want to note that for your sake, if you cannot read&#x2F;write ruby at the level of writing a cookbook than you should really question yourself as an administrator.)&quot;<p>Ruby is quite complex language. I would say more complex than Python and should not be considered standard. When you use Chef&#x2F;Puppet it is obviously required but absolutely unnecessary when you have a different setup.<p>Or perhaps you should not call yourself and administrator if you do not know all the traits of UNIX OS-es.<p>CFengine &quot;lost&quot; the battle even when it&#x27;s the fastest one with the smallest performance footprint.