[berkes]

True.

Though in all those cases, for me, all alternatives are just as bad or worse.

Getting ansible running on a windows server is... unfortunate. Ensuring that your bash script runs on OSX is easier, but I've had lots of unexpected issues with tools like grep or find working just a tiny bit different. And so on.

[brundolf]

Node scripts, even with dependencies, are pretty much 100% equivalent across all platforms :)