> The alternative is ansible. Everybody I know moved away from Chef to Ansible and never looked back. That has been my experience/perspective as well. This wa

> The alternative is ansible. Everybody I know moved away from Chef to Ansible and never looked back. That has been my experience/perspective as well. This was what I found industry... * ~2012 Puppet golden years * ~2014 Chef golden years * ~2016 Surge of popularity for Ansible and Salt. * ~2018+ Kubernetes ubiquity, Terraform for cloud, Ansible for systems Related to this, saw popularity in SSR (server-side rendering) with Rails before 2012-2016, and after 2016 rise of popularity in SPA (Angular, React, Vue) on top of micro-frameworks like Flask (Python), Express (Node), GoLang, others. Combined with this are ML and other backend infra that requires managing clusters that scale better on Kubernetes, where Chef/Puppet have little presence on either K8S or backend distributed clusters.