You can run Ansible locally with `-c local`. But, as far as serverless/self-bootstrapping deploys go, it's less common. Ansible has less of a "culture of depen

You can run Ansible locally with `-c local`. But, as far as serverless/self-bootstrapping deploys go, it's less common. Ansible has less of a "culture of dependencies"; the simpler, more approachable-looking nature of the Ansible playbook format seems to lend itself to people one-offing whatever they need rather than looking for best-practices solutions that already exist. Because of this, there's no real Berkshelf equivalent for Ansible. The tooling doesn't exist, outside of Tower (sorta), because nobody wants it, and nobody wants it because the tooling doesn't exist. So the people who are doing with Ansible something similar to the Chef Zero stuff I mentioned above are mostly home-rolling it. (I just use a S3 bucket as a Minimart berkshelf endpoint and move on with my day.) Last-mile configuration is also tricky. In my Chef Zero stuff, I use CloudFormation metadata to provide Chef attributes. You can do something similar with Ansible...but it's duct-tapey. There are times when simple is better; IMO, Ansible's core tooling errs too far on that side and the ecosystem has not caught up to make more rigorous approaches really viable.