Avoiding Ansible is precisely why I use chezmoi. Unfortunately I still have to use Ansible for stuff that isn't my dotfiles, but the less Ansible, the better.

Avoiding Ansible is precisely why I use chezmoi. Unfortunately I still have to use Ansible for stuff that isn't my dotfiles, but the less Ansible, the better. It feels like whatever use cases I have for Ansible are weird and not what other people are doing, because everything I try to do is difficult and poorly documented. For example, when I try to spin up a machine running Alpine Linux using Ansible, I've encountered all sorts of strange bugs, some of which I've reported and are (being) fixed, but it boggles my mind that what I thought would be really basic stuff, like setting the hostname or the timezone, is buggy as heck.