Expect is great for persuading things, particularly poorly written Java monoliths that use text interactive installers, to play nicely with ansible. On more tha

Expect is great for persuading things, particularly poorly written Java monoliths that use text interactive installers, to play nicely with ansible. On more than one occasion it has been tasked with handling one. You run autoexpect first to record what you want it to do on a dry run, then tidy up the generated expect script, then plug it into ansible as a raw task. Granted this shouldn't be a problem in 2016 but some vendors are idiots. But thanks to expect my life is a little more comfortable :)