IMO Ansible is not a good tool for configuration management compared to tools like Puppet and Chef. There's no node graph which mininises how much you can do in

IMO Ansible is not a good tool for configuration management compared to tools like Puppet and Chef. There's no node graph which mininises how much you can do in parallel and proper chaining of dependencies, and using YAML to describe largely imperative tasks is downright horrible (looking at you with_items). I think it works fine for orchestration, but anything more and it gets uncomfortable.