Good point: "if a few shell commands is all you want to do." Agree totally. If you're doing something tiny, then a few shell commands are what is needed, not a

Good point: "if a few shell commands is all you want to do." Agree totally. If you're doing something tiny, then a few shell commands are what is needed, not a CM tool. I'm speaking mostly about serious systems that businesses run on. Ansible is not for everyone. Each tool has strengths and weaknesses. I generally push Ansible because it's the easiest to get started with, but can also scale to 10K+ nodes. If something simpler/easier comes along, I'll recommend that instead. I suspect some combo of Docker and Ansible to ultimately be the simplest set up (in the near-term), but I'm actively learning that and not confident enough in it to be able to suggest it to newbies.