"glorified paralleized shell-loop spewing gzipped python can get away with something like this time and time again" That's exactly why it's good. It beat puppe

"glorified paralleized shell-loop spewing gzipped python can get away with something like this time and time again" That's exactly why it's good. It beat puppet, it beat chef, and saltstack fails to make inroads for the same reasons. They all make useless and difficult abstraction layers on top of what is essentially running shell scripts in loops over what's ultimately an ssh connection or a worse, proprietary version of one. I won't defend some of the decisions Ansible has made over the years, but its simplicity is the key feature.