But it's not more consistent if you need to change something. Having declarative desired state configuration is useful for any environment, even when n = 1. I

But it's not more consistent if you need to change something. Having declarative desired state configuration is useful for any environment, even when n = 1. I would definitely deploy a configuration management solution for 10 hosts; it takes a couple hours of work to do properly and you can do it without a server initially (though a central server provides other benefits)