I used to use ansible and salt but I realized that all configurations are in the persistent files so there is nothing to configure. Now, I run services and not

I used to use ansible and salt but I realized that all configurations are in the persistent files so there is nothing to configure. Now, I run services and not elastic containers - in the sense that once I have Syncthing or whatever set up, it stays that way. i do not need to pop up containers and configure them manually.