I do this with my ansible deployments at work. I first spin up a test VM or env, then manually configure what I am going to do and get it working properly. Then

I do this with my ansible deployments at work. I first spin up a test VM or env, then manually configure what I am going to do and get it working properly. Then once that is done, I just export my bash history/whatever config files I was working on and rewrite the pertinent bits in ansible.