I have used Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack and Chef. In the beggining using puppet was annoying because you had to explicitly declare all dependencies or Puppet wou

I have used Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack and Chef. In the beggining using puppet was annoying because you had to explicitly declare all dependencies or Puppet would do things in the wrong order. This has since the latest versions of Puppet been fixed. Ansible is good but it has already been forked to Stonic, which for me is a sign of disagreement in the community. A lot of the management tools tends to have their config agents crashing so you need to baby sit your agents instead of just configuring your servers. I tend to use Puppet, Ansible standalone pulling the configuration templates via git that avoids the crashing agents issue.