It depends on your deployment model to a degree. In the case where you build a new image for your web server on every deployment, then this isn't an issue. For

It depends on your deployment model to a degree. In the case where you build a new image for your web server on every deployment, then this isn't an issue. For longer running systems, like databases, it would still be an annoyance. I think that Ansible is still a transitional glue tech though, and projects like flynn.io may move things forward by making the CM part of the infrastructure a developer task vs. a devops one.