> I recall having to explain to certain developers how they have to first figure out more than 5 different services for AWS, then use packer to build an AMI, wh

> I recall having to explain to certain developers how they have to first figure out more than 5 different services for AWS, then use packer to build an AMI, which is provisioned using Chef, then they have to terraform the relevant services, then use cloud-init to pull configuration values. All in all I had to do most of the work, and the code was scattered in several places. That sounds horrible. You can actually do all that from a single repository, using just ansible alone, with one cli invocation: - use packer to build an AMI => ansible - provisioned using Chef => ansible - terraform the relevant services => ansible - use cloud-init to pull configuration values => baked into the image