This depends greatly on the purpose of the machine. I've recently used more snapshots of virtual machines to perform my work than running up tin boxes. The time

This depends greatly on the purpose of the machine. I've recently used more snapshots of virtual machines to perform my work than running up tin boxes. The time saved when rolling back to a snapshot or using a snapshot to deploy a new VM is far less that setting up tin. Also, this allows you to move the image to other tin boxes for working. Ansible, sorry, not so much because I rarely have to redeploy a bare bones tin box.