As someone who had to write infrastructure in Python, every time from scratch, for large projects: pyinfra isn't it (and neither is Ansible, if you care about t

As someone who had to write infrastructure in Python, every time from scratch, for large projects: pyinfra isn't it (and neither is Ansible, if you care about that). It will probably work for some simple and common cases, but they barely need any automation anyways... The problem isn't even the tool itself, it's the lack of standards. Every large enough system is too unique to be easily managed by cookie-cutter tools like this one. Some people will bite the bullet anyways, and try to adapt general-purpose infra tools to their case. I've seen that too. This is a very miserable experience. Frustrating in that very obviously simple and necessary things are sometimes described as "impossible" due to how the chosen framework works. To contrast that, the home-brewed systems usually suffer from the lack of generality, worse user experience in general, quickly start lagging behind the underlying technology updates... Also, out of popular languages, Python would be somewhere towards the bottom of the hierarchy if I had to choose a language to manage infrastructure. The only redeeming quality of Python is its popularity. On engineering merits alone its unremarkable at best. ---- PS. import click If I see this in the project source code, I blacklist it and never look at it again. This is a red flag, a sure sign that the person writing it are clueless.