[noir_lord]

In my case I found Ansible was pretty much all I needed and it only took me a day or so to get my head around the basics (though I'm still learning all the other interesting stuff you can do) - in truth though I've been running and deploying servers for years with bash and python stuff so it just felt like a more generic better put together version of stuff I was already doing.

[dano]

Agreed. I'm quite pleased with Ansible having been around a while and seen the growth through cf_engine, custom scripts, chef, puppet, and salt. Ansible is certainly quite easy to get going, very flexible, and precise.