I wrote about this problem recently. Ansible makes some trade offs I think it might be possible to improve upon nowadays. https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/provisio

I wrote about this problem recently. Ansible makes some trade offs I think it might be possible to improve upon nowadays. https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/provisioning-tradeoffs/ https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/provisioning-tradeoffs/ I'm working on a project here where you just write code that eventually gets compiled and SCP'd and runs on a host. It only targets Ubuntu but the goal is to replicate what Ansible does, but faster and more reliably. https://github.com/kevinburke/ansible-go https://github.com/kevinburke/ansible-go