# Manage Openstack with salt/ansible.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/manage-openstack-with-salt-ansible/23864>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manage-openstack-with-salt-ansible/23864 "2017-03-02T13:19:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Pratik\_Bandarkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Pratik\_Bandarkar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pratik_Bandarkar)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manage-openstack-with-salt-ansible/23864/1 "2017-03-02T13:19:51Z")

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I am plaining to work on automating tasks which admin generally performs after deploying Openstack.For ex. create/delete/manage instances/volumes/network/heat-stack etc.

But, I am bit confused in between salt and ansible. Which one is mature for my usecase with good documentation? Can anyone suggest me the better option and examples if available?

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_Klein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dennis\_Klein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dennis_Klein)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manage-openstack-with-salt-ansible/23864/2 "2017-03-02T14:56:35Z")

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Have you looked at the included modules both have?

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list\_of\_cloud\_modules.html#openstack](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_cloud_modules.html#openstack)  
[https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/cloud/openstack.html](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/cloud/openstack.html)

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**Author:** ![Pratik\_Bandarkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Pratik\_Bandarkar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pratik_Bandarkar)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manage-openstack-with-salt-ansible/23864/3 "2017-03-02T20:10:30Z")

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Thanks for reply. I have deployed newton setup and currently I am playing with ansible modules. It seems to be ansible is handy here as there are lots of ansible modules than saltstack states. I might be wrong.

Regards,  
Pratik.