I've used Ansible quite a bit, and I could sometimes sum it up as, "the worst one, except for its alternatives". I tend to think of Ansible as supporting a fle

I've used Ansible quite a bit, and I could sometimes sum it up as, "the worst one, except for its alternatives". I tend to think of Ansible as supporting a flexible combination of declarative and procedural approaches. Within a particular sequence of tasks, it's procedural. Those lists of tasks are typically combined into a role or the like that is typically more declarative in its application. Of course application of roles is actually procedural in that it happens in the same obvious order it's defined, but the higher level organizational constructs like roles have more of a declarative feel to me (I'd assume that's by design).