I'm pro-baking AMIs. I do it every day and have automated and wrapped it up with Jenkins/Packer etc. I don't get your point though. Something, ansible, puppet,

I'm pro-baking AMIs. I do it every day and have automated and wrapped it up with Jenkins/Packer etc. I don't get your point though. Something, ansible, puppet, something has to put all the config in place. I've done the whole rpm for everything approach before too. It didn't end that well to be honest.