hmm, I can take a stab at that. I have extensively used both. Ansible is pretty good for 'get something or set of machines into a particular state'. Python i

hmm, I can take a stab at that. I have extensively used both. Ansible is pretty good for 'get something or set of machines into a particular state'. Python is pretty good for 'run these bits and give a nice error if something goes weird'. The 'error path' is where ansible falls down for me. It can generate some very strange ones. Also its yml syntax can sometimes create odd issues with people who have not used it before. Ansible is also terrible for any sort of data processing. It is very good at iterate over a list and do this action to those items though. I recently did an audit script using ansible. Because I thought hey I have this cool tool to do it. It was a mistake. It probably would have taken 1/3rd the amount of time to do in python. Also if someone (probably me) has to extend that script getting the yml right will be tricky. I also recently used ansible to write a bunch of upgrade scripts. It was a breeze and would have taken much longer to do in python. In my case many times you have to write to the lowest common denominator. So bash it is, with some sort of central ansible setup controller.