[CraigJPerry]

+1 for too many places rely on band aids. The frustrating thing is that there's no need now. These tools are adoptable by almost anyone and if you use them you shine a giant spotlight into the previously dimly lit area of your system configurations. You get documentation, testability and version control of your infra. It's extremely liberating.

One of the most valuable things has turned out to be the ability to refactor infra as a project evolves. Some task that would have required a few hands and a project manager now becomes a few edits.

I lead a CFEngine team and It never fails to amaze people when I demo end to end life cycle management "that used to take 3 guys 2 days" etc.

P.s. I use ansible at home though: https://github.com/CraigJPerry/home-network