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I went to Ansible Fest 2014 in SF. IMO, the conference was pretty worthless outside talking to DeHaan and a few of the core developers. It was very sales focused and lacked much technical depth (what tech conference actually goes into any depth these days?).

This being said don't let that deter you. Ansible itself is an excellent project. I won't rehash what's already been said but both our dev and ops teams were able to transition off Chef and onto Ansible within a week. The time to onboard is miniscule compared to Chef, Puppet or CFEngine. There's been very little friction building customizing modules or contributing to an otherwise fantastic community.

As someone who moved from CFengine to Puppet to Chef and now Ansible I've been extremely happy.

FWIW, I'd argue that it's easier to fix a Python/YAML/Jinja error in your Ansible play/role/template than it is to try to track down attribute precedence and override issues or Ruby behaviors which aren't very Ruby like in Chef.