Saltstack is an interesting compromise... states can be described in a serialization format or in Python. I used Saltstack a lot at my last company and really l

Saltstack is an interesting compromise... states can be described in a serialization format or in Python. I used Saltstack a lot at my last company and really liked it because for most cases, you could just use YAML... but when that didn't work, you could bring in a "real" programming language (python).