Oh, but Ansible is not agentless. You do have an agent, and the worst kind at that: the one that you easily cut off by a single configuration mistake, because i

Oh, but Ansible is not agentless. You do have an agent, and the worst kind at that: the one that you easily cut off by a single configuration mistake, because it serves both to send configuration commands and for diagnostic access. And then, whole Ansible run breaks on first problem on any host, even if it was a planned downtime.