I came from puppet and salt felt a good amount "lighter". I'm mostly a python developer and salt states written in pure yaml with jinja2 templates, or alternati

I came from puppet and salt felt a good amount "lighter". I'm mostly a python developer and salt states written in pure yaml with jinja2 templates, or alternatively directly in raw python for more complex stuff feel like home. The yaml makes it very easy to understand even if I come back to a state after months. It's just a list of things that should happen with a few template tags sprinkled in. Not saying salt is better than puppet or friends. It's purely based on preference. I can't say anything to chef or ansible since I never tried them. Salt has a crazy active community and while there are things I don't like about it like the "name" of a state, it's still doing it's job just fine so I sticked with it.