F.A.Q.

FAQ

Why is Banquise using Salt Stack, and not another deployment tool?

Few open sources deployment solutions were tested for Banquise. Salt Stack was chosen because it was powerful enough and flexible enough to handle something like Banquise. Also, the pure Jinja2 way of Salt should help in the future.

There is no High Availability or Failover, do you plan to add it?

Yes. Major projects are HA/Failover and Multi-Islands. However, choice was made to first consolidate the Standalone version before developing the others.

Salt Stack is compatible with many Linux distributions, but not Banquise. Is it planed also?

Yes. First one should be Debian/Ubuntu compatibility. Development should start after Beta 2 is released.

Is there a way to use OpenHPC rpm into Banquise?

Yes, you just need to develop a simple state that add this repository. If enough people need it, it will be added into main part of Banquise.