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Discussion on: Why you might need Ansible and not even know it

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Daniel Ziltener

Ansible is a great tool, and in my opinion a massive step up in terms of quality-of-life compared to the complex behemoths that are Salt, Chef and Puppet. We deploy our Google Cloud servers with Ansible (though it was a hassle to make it work with gcloud compute ssh...) and also provision our Vagrant boxes for development and testing with it. This is simple done right!

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Piotr Gaczkowski

I love Ansible (as you can tell) and it's ease of use (nothing to install at the client side). One drawback for me is the speed of execution. But compared to she'll scripts that could fail, it's still pretty good!