I do this with my computers (laptops, desktops, and servers) and while it does have some drawbacks on the desktop I feel the reproducibility far outweighs them.

I do this with my computers (laptops, desktops, and servers) and while it does have some drawbacks on the desktop I feel the reproducibility far outweighs them. Whenever a new version of OS X comes out, I just clean install it on my machine, run ansible and then have a working environment back up in under an hour.