That's interesting. I was setting up a server the other day and wanted to document it in a repeatable way but, having used Chef and Anisble in the past made me

That's interesting. I was setting up a server the other day and wanted to document it in a repeatable way but, having used Chef and Anisble in the past made me not want to go through the hassle of setting up a whole "thing"... So I looked through the Puppet docs for about 5 minutes and found I could just run "Puppet apply whatever.pp" on the server and got everything working in about 15 minutes. And I'd never used it before in my life. So for now, I'm quite impressed with the ease of Puppet. Chef and Ansible both are really great for 80 to 90% of what I've needed to do in the past. But that last 10-20% is really painful. It requires huge contortions, or poking through the source code so that you understand the details of the system so thoroughly that you can write an new module, or abuse the existing modules and bend them to your will. I suspect that, in the end, Puppet will have the same sorts of limitations as the others. But it did have a very nice way of setting things up that didn't require a whole infrastructure.