As someone who has spent the last month fighting ansible and puppet: automation in software does not mean less work. IMO: there’s an inverse relationship betwe

As someone who has spent the last month fighting ansible and puppet: automation in software does not mean less work. IMO: there’s an inverse relationship between maintainability and ease of use. Config files are extremely easy for large groups of people to maintain but it sucks making changes to them. As an individual I’ve found it’s often easier to rewrite the application myself to do what I need than to edit complex config files.