I'm very fond of Debian, fantastic OS. But what I really wish is they would some have more automation options suitable for the modern cloud world, e.g. somethi

I'm very fond of Debian, fantastic OS. But what I really wish is they would some have more automation options suitable for the modern cloud world, e.g. something similar to Butane/Ignition as used on CoreOS. I know there's cloud-init but that's hacky, verbose and opinionated compared to something like Butane/Ignition. I also know there's ansible etc. in Debian distro but that's kind of yesterday's solution.