As someone who has previously used Chef and is currently using Ansible, I can understand those pain points. For me it's not as much of a problem as I have 10x l

As someone who has previously used Chef and is currently using Ansible, I can understand those pain points. For me it's not as much of a problem as I have 10x less servers, but I have heard a lot of complaints about Ansible scaling. I definitely miss being able to just use Ruby in a cookbook, but it's usually very rare that I can't find a reasonable workaround. Usually I describe Ansible as the tool for people who don't come from a programming background and won't be administrating a huge amount of servers. Otherwise, if you need scale then use Chef (as why would you want to have to deal with scaling AND Puppets terrible DSL).