[pmoriarty]

I came to Ansible from Puppet, buying in to the claims I'd heard about Ansible being so much simpler ("it uses YAML for its config, which is so much simpler than configuring Puppet").

Turns out that, like Puppet, Ansible seems to have been congealed rather than designed, and it's a mess of inconsistent spaghetti code.

All the other config management systems I've tried, from Salt to Chef have exactly the same problem.

I'd be thrilled to find a config management system that actually was simple and elegant.

[whalesalad]

you are 100% correct that ansible is a mess... congealed is a great way to describe it.