Yep, saltstack is a dumpster fire. Each jinja template can call arbitrary Python functions, and usually brings in external data from somewhere, so if something

Yep, saltstack is a dumpster fire. Each jinja template can call arbitrary Python functions, and usually brings in external data from somewhere, so if something fails you have a jinja template that imported arbitrary data into a YAML format which defined multiple action items that are executed in some hard-to-understand order and good luck figuring out what went wrong where. Jinja/salt usually wouldn't even tell you what line of the original script caused the error. My company's scripts have lots of "if fail, try two more times, and hope it succeeds" logic as a result. -_-