> simply writing Ansible playbooks As someone who has been doing this for some years now, it is not simple. To be fair, you can write a simple Ansible playboo

> simply writing Ansible playbooks As someone who has been doing this for some years now, it is not simple. To be fair, you can write a simple Ansible playbook if Ansible isn't doing much for you. But if you're using Ansible to manage things which are themselves not simple (like "just install a Node runtime please") you are at the mercy of whatever shell script Ansible eventually ends up calling. I've been through Ubuntu version updates and Ansible really didn't help with issues like "that package is now no longer in the PPA you got it from". Administration doesn't take a lot of my time, but when I do need to do it, it can take a solid day of focus to make sure I know what I'm doing, make the changes, recover from the pitfalls I always forget (e.g. "this Ansible step fails in --check mode because it depends on a file that is created in an earlier step, which doesn't happen in check mode") then work through the inevitable issues. I wouldn't want to do it without Ansible, but it's not "simply" anything.