[foolmeonce]

I have traditionally used ansible and I hate it and am slowly converting to nix tooling.

With ansible, I feel like everything is poorly solved and you need to weigh decisions about when to use various hashicorp products. Worse still if you use their plugins instead of just script substitutions you get stupid behavior like not being able to fix your configuration because it is broken, or turning off the supposed advantage of these plugins such that they are almost as good as sed again.

[bak3y]

I've used ansible for years to configure my local workstation and hundreds of linux servers both on prem and in AWS and have never needed a Hashicorp product.