I started out using Puppet, and in a new job chose Ansible instead. I never regretted it one bit - troubleshooting in Ansible, you know exactly where it broke.

I started out using Puppet, and in a new job chose Ansible instead. I never regretted it one bit - troubleshooting in Ansible, you know exactly where it broke. Troubleshooting in puppet was sometimes a giant mystery. Also, if you used the same step in two different puppet manifests, it would totally freak out and refuse to run, even if the invocations were identical. I got the feeling that Puppet is for giant enterprise environments with automated agents everywhere, and Ansible is better suited for admin-driven runs.