> the client/server model and its knock on effects (IIRC, needing to upload changes with knife?) was annoying It also has tons of advantages, notably around s

> the client/server model and its knock on effects (IIRC, needing to upload changes with knife?) was annoying It also has tons of advantages, notably around scale (Ansible id very slow when working with thousands of machines) and ensuring that there is no drift. Also e.g. SaltStack (RIP) has cool features such as reactor to react to events on the machine which are only possible because there's an agent