A big selling point for Ansible was that it didn't require an agent or server. Chef has caught up, it still needs the agent but chef-zero [1] makes solo deploy

A big selling point for Ansible was that it didn't require an agent or server. Chef has caught up, it still needs the agent but chef-zero [1] makes solo deploying much easier. [1] - https://github.com/chef/chef-zero https://github.com/chef/chef-zero