> As a platform engineer I care that this file exists with this specific content and these specific permissions. I don't care how it happens. Puppet and Chef ha

> As a platform engineer I care that this file exists with this specific content and these specific permissions. I don't care how it happens. Puppet and Chef have the advantage of being declarative and that's 100% better than procedurally telling ansible what to do and what not to do These examples seem as declarative as Chef and Puppet: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/file_module.html#examples https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/file_module.... https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/template_module.html#examples https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/template_mod...