Yes; if you open up one of the roles downloaded (like the solr role), you can see some of the niceties offered. The blog post basically covers one small aspect

Yes; if you open up one of the roles downloaded (like the solr role), you can see some of the niceties offered. The blog post basically covers one small aspect of Ansible—the ability to manage packages and simple configuration easily, but deployments, broad CM pushes (e.g. pushing the config out to 10s or 100s of servers concurrently), and broader orchestration ala Fabric isn't mentioned at all.