While I completely agree with everything you’ve said, I guess I spent too much time with Ansible and learned to love it. It’s still love/hate relationship but I

While I completely agree with everything you’ve said, I guess I spent too much time with Ansible and learned to love it. It’s still love/hate relationship but I know it very well and just accept the bad design as a given. One thing I learned the hard way - sometimes if you have to deal with complex data structures and data manipulation in Ansible it’s better to decouple the logic into a plug-in or a filter, even if it’s possible in theory to get done by Ansible. Also when you know how to efficiently use it, all the inventory tricks, the proper directory and file structure - you can build runbooks that are as close to being elegant as possible with this kind of software.