I've seen a deployment of a large number of ec2 instances + other Amazon services handled with Puppet+Ansible, and I've also seen a somewhat smaller but still f

I've seen a deployment of a large number of ec2 instances + other Amazon services handled with Puppet+Ansible, and I've also seen a somewhat smaller but still fairly sizeable deployment using a custom Kube cluster. The custom Kube cluster was cool and definitely seemed to make those working with it happy, but I was much happier working with the Puppet+Ansible bare metal setup. It's just easier to figure out what's wrong. I am now working with hosted Kubernetes, which seems to be much less of a mental headache.