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On my local market extremely. Chef and Puppet are used by some single companies that started their "infrastructure as code" (or similar) journey a long time ago, but most companies I know and people I work with/interviewed use Ansible.

It's easy to jump into, it helped me a lot in the past to push my companies into automation while still having a lot of legacy software, servers, network. Does not exclude using other tools, like Terraform (while could be it's replacement in many cases).

In "let's go Kubernetes" era I still don't mind investing in Ansible automation for preparing servers, doing software deployments and so on. There is Packer that works great, so several years of development of our old tools and old school software deployments will not be lost. It will be reused while doing heavier adoption of containers and K8s.