> The concept of "just let me run my custom scripts everywhere" is a nice one, so long as you're talking about a dozen or so machines This is not the recommend

> The concept of "just let me run my custom scripts everywhere" is a nice one, so long as you're talking about a dozen or so machines This is not the recommended way to use Ansible at all. Ansible encourages the use of modules, to perform tasks on the server in an idempotent manner. There are modules[1] for installing packages, creating, 'editing files' and so on. Running custom shell scripts for everything is specifically discouraged in their documentation. [1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/modules_by_category.html https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/modules_by_c...