I wrote a proof-of-concept tool, inspired by puppet more than anything, but since it runs locally it is perhaps comparable to ansible too: https://github.com/s

I wrote a proof-of-concept tool, inspired by puppet more than anything, but since it runs locally it is perhaps comparable to ansible too: https://github.com/skx/marionette/ https://github.com/skx/marionette/ It turns out that three operations suffice for almost 90% of my needs: * Populate a file, from a template with variable expansion. * Run a shell-command. * Install a package. I added support for pulling a docker container too, just for fun. Although I never made the effort to pimp/promote it, the tool is stable and useful as-is.