# From salt to ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/from-salt-to-ansible/20895>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/from-salt-to-ansible/20895 "2016-03-16T20:51:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Guttler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@Thomas\_Guttler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Thomas_Guttler)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/from-salt-to-ansible/20895/1 "2016-03-16T20:51:52Z")

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During the last weeks I played around with salt-stack.

Salt reminds me of the programming language [“prolog”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog) we learned at university. Yes, I can think that way.

But I am unsure if I want to think that way.

My brains somehow prefers the step1, step2, step3 … approach. Defining a big  
net of dependencies might be academically correct way. But on the other hand  
I am a human, and prefer the easy way (not because I am lazy, but because  
I think if you loose the joy, then I won’t get the things done).

Is there anyone using ansible who has worked with salt, too?

What do you think?

Is ansible more “easy”?

My background: I use linux servers since 1996 and do programming (first C, then Python) since years.  
… but I am new to configuration management.

Regards,  
Thomas Güttler