> All these new fancy all-Go tools creep me out. It certainly makes one's ability to look into the machinery and know what is going on much harder. > If I wan

> All these new fancy all-Go tools creep me out. It certainly makes one's ability to look into the machinery and know what is going on much harder. > If I want to write some Perl/Python/Bash script to support some very non standard part of my infrastructure, I should be able to That very feature is why I love ansible: if there is some quirk, or even an unreleased module (they only ship new features in major releases, I recently learned), then you can copy the upstream file, or a modified version of the existing one, or even a whole new module, into the `library` or `lookup_plugins` directory of your playbook and you're back in business. No fighting with golang anything. You can also write ansible modules in any language you like.