I don't get Ansible (and the likes) anymore in 2016. I do still use it a lot, but when I use it, it always ends up being a canary for system design smells. Chan

I don't get Ansible (and the likes) anymore in 2016. I do still use it a lot, but when I use it, it always ends up being a canary for system design smells. Changing state on a server _after_ deployment is just always a pain. But seems to be the only thing ansible tries to address. Another use case is using Ansible for immutable stuff, but that just pushes Ansible in the territory of orchestration tools, and the latter usually do a better job.