I see Ansible as necessary evil. Not requiring server-side installed tools to work is great. But choosing yaml of all things for playbooks is downright vile. So there’s nothing casual about administering that many servers and machines, especially with constant warnings about Python version incompatibility.

Meeh, someone had to do the job 🤷. It’s not like there is a more flexible solution out there.

Man… Saltstack is SO MUCH MORE effective at mass management. It’s fast AF. Yet… Ansible everywhere.