I entirely disagree with it, because I do do this and it works beautifully. I even wrote an article on how: https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-comp

I entirely disagree with it, because I do do this and it works beautifully. I even wrote an article on how: https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-computer-one-command-awesome/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-computer-one-... Just write whatever change you want to make into your Ansible file, and run the provisioning command, instead of making the change directly. Done.