> write your own bash scripts I used to do that, still do once in a while, but I find Ansible to be much better for provisioning and configuring things. I rare

> write your own bash scripts I used to do that, still do once in a while, but I find Ansible to be much better for provisioning and configuring things. I rarely use modules that are not part of the base install; in fact at present I am not using any that aren't standard. I feel my playbooks are simplistic compared to what I see others doing, but they work for me. The idempotency and error checking that Ansible provides are well beyond what I feel is worth rolling by hand, so it's a good tradeoff. I can still write simple things that I understand.