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by grrywlsn 2286 days ago
The original question didn't have much context, and I guess my answer assumed someone would be using a cloud provider as opposed to anything on premise.

Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

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> Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

Ansible is used in networking, which many vendors having official modules:

* https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan

* https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-cvp

* https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-ansible/in...

* https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible

There are even frameworks if you want to write things in 'raw' Python as well.

> Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

Yes. Well, OK, maybe not good but better than ad hoc.