This, a million times this. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, cfengine and a bunch of others serve certain use cases. Unfortunately, once you give someone a tool it quickl

This, a million times this. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, cfengine and a bunch of others serve certain use cases. Unfortunately, once you give someone a tool it quickly turns into a hammer, then a jackhammer, a crowbar, sonic screwdriver, fork lift and a lot more. I've seen Puppet used as replacements for simple bash scripts, more complete management of a host (this is what I would consider config management), deployment tools and distributed consensus.