[pram]

They're not competition. I use Terraform for infra provisioning, and Ansible for post-provisioning application setup. I also use Packer + Ansible playbooks to build my AMIs.

[digianarchist]

You can create infra with Ansible. The downside to Ansible is the Cloud Provider modules are "community" not core and some of them are buggy.

[buggeryorkshire]

Yup, that's the best use-case. The more that cloudy / container stuff takes over the less I use Ansible tbf.

[jimpudar]

A lot of post provisioning tasks I used to do with Ansible are now handled with cloud-init.

[buggeryorkshire]

Exactly. We use it in the pipeline for building the AMI unfortunately at my current place but it's not optimal.

[jimpudar]

I like Packer + Ansible for building machine images. I haven't really tried any alternative workflows but that has been great for my needs so far!

[polynomial]

What kinds of tasks can Ansible do that Packer isn't also capable of?