I've been playing around with galaxy all this week, already there's a ton of cool stuff. Ansible kind of sits between imperative and declarative, which gives a

I've been playing around with galaxy all this week, already there's a ton of cool stuff. Ansible kind of sits between imperative and declarative, which gives a lot of flexibility in how you merge together tasks to ultimately become idempotent. Finding just the right combination of commands is an art (I've seen some hacky playbooks), so having a way to grab something already built (and usually pretty polished) is awesome. I kind of think of ansible as a language in itself. You're given these tools, basic declarative and imperative functions to execute on your system, conditionals, loops, variables, and from these things you build idempotent super-functions called roles. Galaxy is just package management for ansible libraries. It's definitely not perfect (I'm not really in love with the way roles are laid out, a lot of boilerplate), and honestly I think something even more language like would be even better, but ansible is the best thing I've used so far.