As I mentioned in another place above, if you'd like an alternative that is even simpler than ansible, yet still idempotent, try pave: https://pypi.python.org/

As I mentioned in another place above, if you'd like an alternative that is even simpler than ansible, yet still idempotent, try pave: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pave https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pave https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave