Another Ansible convert here. Our entire team uses it, we love it. We have a semi-unique situation where we have to do a lot of finagling to access some machine

Another Ansible convert here. Our entire team uses it, we love it. We have a semi-unique situation where we have to do a lot of finagling to access some machines, don't always have control over what sits in front of them, and frequently have to comply with outside regulations. I won't go into too much detail, but Ansible is flexible enough and expandable enough to fit our needs. We were able to have Ansible reading from our custom inventory system in under a day, have expanded it to tie in with tons of internals, and all with very minimal effort. What would've taken weeks setting up with Puppet or Chef just falls into place. It's a beautiful thing. Highly recommend giving it a try, even if just to have a quick way of setting up your own dev machines.