Although I don't 'love' Ansible I use it nearly daily and have written thousands of lines of Ansible YAML. It suits, but yes, I share your view; this stuff sho

Although I don't 'love' Ansible I use it nearly daily and have written thousands of lines of Ansible YAML. It suits, but yes, I share your view; this stuff should be unnecessary. Docker as well. Docker is a fairly precise proxy for the inadequacies of Linux; all it's really doing is papering over the missing, badly needed parts of the OS.