Ansible's ad-hoc is the thing that you can learn really fast. No need to dive into the all this idempotent paradigm or try to fully grasp the architecture of yo

Ansible's ad-hoc is the thing that you can learn really fast. No need to dive into the all this idempotent paradigm or try to fully grasp the architecture of your configuration management solution to do the basics (looking at you, Chef). Just need to update sudo on 30 boxes? CLI and inventory file - that's all you need. On the other side, do stuff like this all the time and you'll start to think that Ansible is just some kind of distributed shell executor on the steroids. Absolutely not. While other CM solutions tend to strictly put you inside their way of doing things from the very beginning, Ansible gives you the freedom about how you use it. That's why Ansible is a way to go tool not only for serious infrastructure engineering, but also a good helper for any IT-related tasks.