THey have slightly different sweet spots, puppet is really good for fixing configuration drift, run it every 30 mins and you know the server will always be in t

THey have slightly different sweet spots, puppet is really good for fixing configuration drift, run it every 30 mins and you know the server will always be in the state you expect. Ansible tends to be better for jobs you do when a sysadmin wants them done, its really good for scripting repeatable installations, or for doing updates in a consistent fashion on hundreds of machines, adding new users to a bunch of different applications, etc etc. You can use puppet for ad-hoc jobs, but its not really designed for that it tends to be overly complicated and a bit awkward (imho). You can do drift re-mediation with ansible and run it every 30 mins to fix issues and it will work but its not its real sweet spot. Personally I would use ansible for both use cases because its simpler, I understand it, and it has a more sysadmin way of thinking, but I know places that use both and that makes sense as well.