> I still see operations people using Ansible as a better shell script, without proper structure, without understanding the fundamentals of such a tool. Without

> I still see operations people using Ansible as a better shell script, without proper structure, without understanding the fundamentals of such a tool. Without understanding the process they are trying to automate. It really doesn’t help that Ansible invented their own terminology, hierarchy, and module-y system but it bears no resemblance to anything else and has difficult and confusing answers to common things like “what if I want a copy of this role that uses yum to install instead of apt?”. I liken it to Tim Cook telling people they were holding the iPhone wrong; theyve developed it in a way where people intuitively hold it the wrong way.