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All of the automation tools out there always felt clunky to me. Ansible has been working fairly OK so far for my usage, but I can't imagine using it if I was ma

All of the automation tools out there always felt clunky to me. Ansible has been working fairly OK so far for my usage, but I can't imagine using it if I was managing hundreds of machines. I considered using saltstack, but despite spending a few hours reading their doc, I'm still very confused by all the lingo. I recently started reading and considered using NixOS, but the still relative newness (it's 14 years old!) makes me worry about missing packages and updates.

djsumdog 10y ago
I felt the same way about Saltstack. I've worked at shops that use Puppet (with and without Hiera) and CFEngine. In my person projects I've used a lot of Ansible. Out of all the CM systems I've tried Ansible feels the most sane. It still has a some things that annoy me, but overall I've found it the easiest to deal with. My current shop puts everything in Docker containers and runs them on DC/OS scheduled via Marathon. I don't touch the CM parts anymore, but I think our DC/OS team provisions the actual nodes via Puppet.