Yes, my friend uses ansible to store his work-pc configuration. After upgrade/replacement he just installs git, ansible and his private key and then rest of the

Yes, my friend uses ansible to store his work-pc configuration. After upgrade/replacement he just installs git, ansible and his private key and then rest of the the setup is done by ansible from playbook in his private config repo. In my mind, though, the biggest reason I used ansible was it's simple push-through-ssh nature. I knew that if there are some maintanance tasks I would have to do by sshing from my machine to some server, I could as well create and run an ansible playbook against it. This was espacially useful for configuring ephemeral boxes spawned on i.e. openstack where I know it will have ssh running and that is it.