SaltStack on Windows: Not Always Smooth — But Still Worth It Let’s be honest — managing Windows at scale can be painful. Scripts don’t run the same way twice, permissions break for no reason, and remote tools either do too much or not enough. SaltStack? It sits somewhere in the middle. Once it’s working, it really works. What’s Going On Here?
OctoDNS: Managing DNS Zones the Way GitOps Teams Actually Want DNS isn’t usually the problem — until it is. Someone updates a record by hand, forgets to copy it to the secondary zone, or fat-fingers a TTL. And suddenly, services don’t resolve, emails bounce, or CDNs go dark. OctoDNS helps bring order to all that mess. What Makes It Different
SaltStack on Windows: Not Always Smooth — But Still Worth It Let’s be honest — managing Windows at scale can be painful. Scripts don’t run the same way twice, permissions break for no reason, and remote tools either do too much or not enough. SaltStack? It sits somewhere in the middle. Once it’s working, it really works. What’s Going On Here?
Rudder: When You Need to Know Your Systems Haven’t Gone Rogue It’s always the little things. A config tweak here, a missing user permission there — nobody notices until something breaks. And by the time someone logs in to check, it’s already late. That’s the kind of problem Rudder was made for. Not a magic bullet. Not the flashiest interface. But it works — and that’s saying a lot in environments where “compliance” usually just means praying nothing drifted.
