If that's a problem for you, then use a pull-style config management tool (eg puppet) over a push-style one (eg ansible). If you're at a scale where logging in

If that's a problem for you, then use a pull-style config management tool (eg puppet) over a push-style one (eg ansible). If you're at a scale where logging into each server from your control node 'hurts', then you're still going to hurt with all the config other than nginx anyway.