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authorMichael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>2012-03-05 21:16:55 -0500
committerMichael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>2012-03-05 21:16:55 -0500
commitee6db0531bcec59d920136cad2530ce0a9c04ef9 (patch)
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parent937de08794d9ee2136637bb157433457969aee5b (diff)
downloadansible-ee6db0531bcec59d920136cad2530ce0a9c04ef9.tar.gz
Attempt at adding more comparison info
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diff --git a/docs/comparisons.md b/docs/comparisons.md
index 3820e782be..5204d2bb74 100644
--- a/docs/comparisons.md
+++ b/docs/comparisons.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
- <td><B>Ansible</B></font></td>
+ <td><B><U>Ansible</U></B></font></td>
<td>Puppet</td>
<td>Chef</td>
<td>Func</td>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Purpose</td>
- <td>Config, Deployment, Ad-Hoc</td>
+ <td><B>Config, Deployment, Ad-Hoc</B></td>
<td>Config, Deployment</td>
<td>Config, Deployment</td>
<td>Ad-Hoc</td>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Config Language</td>
- <td>YAML format</td>
+ <td><B>Simple YAML format</B></td>
<td>Custom DSL</td>
<td>Ruby code</td>
<td>None</td>
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
+ <td>Config Ordering</td>
+ <td><B>Simply ordered, with notifiers</B></td>
+ <td>Strict dependency DAG</td>
+ <td>Simply ordered</td>
+ <td>None</td>
+ <td>Simply ordered</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td>Communication</td>
<td>SSH push</td>
<td>SSL pull or push trigger</td>
@@ -48,35 +56,35 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Daemons Required?</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Database Required</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
- <td>no</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inventory Features</td>
<td>planned</td>
- <td>yes</td>
- <td>yes?</td>
- <td>yes</td>
+ <td><B>yes</B></td>
+ <td><B>yes?</B></td>
+ <td>some</td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message Bus Required</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
- <td>no</td>
- <td>no</td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
+ <td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Implemented In</td>
@@ -88,7 +96,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extensible In</td>
- <td>Anything!</td>
+ <td><B>Anything</B></td>
<td>Ruby</td>
<td>Ruby</td>
<td>Python</td>
@@ -96,7 +104,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Codebase Size</td>
- <td>Small</td>
+ <td><B>Small</B></td>
<td>Large</td>
<td>Large</td>
<td>Medium</td>
@@ -105,26 +113,33 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
<tr>
<td>Module Support</td>
<td>Emerging</td>
- <td>Wide/Established</td>
- <td>Wide/Established</td>
+ <td><B>Wide/Established</B></td>
+ <td><B>Wide/Established</B></td>
<td>Medium/Established</td>
<td>Poor</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Users Targeted</td>
- <td>Sysadmins, developers, web admins</td>
+ <td><B>Sysadmins, developers, QA, web admins</B></td>
<td>Sysadmins</td>
<td>Sysadmins, web admins</td>
<td>Sysadmins, developers</td>
<td>Web admins</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <tr>
<td>Can Easily Build Applications On It</td>
- <td>Yes</td>
+ <td><B>Yes</B></td>
+ <td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
+ <td><B>Yes</B></td>
<td>No</td>
- <td>Yes</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>Parallelism & Scaling Tech</td>
+ <td>Fork/Merge</td>
+ <td>Add Servers / Staged Commands / No Server</td>
+ <td>Adding More Erlang</td>
+ <td>Fork/Merge</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -132,7 +147,7 @@ For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
- <td>Yes</td>
+ <td><B>Yes</B></td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
</td>