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by listenallyall 1021 days ago
> IME using Ansible for small-scale automation is no faster than just running the tasks manually, once development time is taken into account

You aren't wrong here but still the payoff is typically worth it, especially for small scale. "Development time" is one factor but the alternative -- building servers or infrastructure manually -- causes all kinds of problems when individual servers are not consistent.