> [Ansible is] a tool to manage hosts. What made you think it is? It's not. It's somebody's application deployment script that grew too big and started being m

> [Ansible is] a tool to manage hosts. What made you think it is? It's not. It's somebody's application deployment script that grew too big and started being marketed as a universal tool. For managing servers its very architecture is too brittle. CFEngine and Puppet are universal tools for managing hosts, though they don't work in (sometimes needed) synchronous manner, like well-prepared RPC daemon would.