[rbjorklin]

I’d say that a tool like Packer is heavily reliant upon Ansible to be useful so I don’t see Ansible going anywhere anytime soon. If there’s a better tool than Ansible out there to pair with Packer please let me know!

[ddreier]

This is now our primary use of Ansible as well. We install and minimally configure systems in machine images, then use cloud-init to do the remaining 1% of config at VM build time.

[cies]

We dropped Ansible and Packer when we went with containers (instead of AMIs). Ok we still use a small bit of Ansible: the vault feature.