Thanks, yeah, I think in ansible and this thing, a role is how we apply some subset of the configs to a given host. I use salt states as roles more or less as w

Thanks, yeah, I think in ansible and this thing, a role is how we apply some subset of the configs to a given host. I use salt states as roles more or less as well. So a given host in the metadata will say that it has roles X, Y, Z - and there is a separate runable thing for each of those to configure each host that wants them. I sorta want the config language to be python while still looking like a very simple playbook - so there shouldn't be like classes, functions, etc. Just a script you run top to bottom like salt states or ansible playbooks. From your example, this is a bit closer to what I think Fabric is: http://www.fabfile.org/ http://www.fabfile.org/