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by JeremyMorgan 4338 days ago
There is certainly a cost/benefit to these tools you have to consider.

Have a few machines you only do basic admin on occasionally? A CFM is probably too complex and a waste. Have a huge infrastructure that scales rapidly, and you have daily changing requirements, or repetitive tasks? It's a life saver.

If you can happily and efficiently manage 100+ machines with a few lines of Bash.. you probably shouldn't change that.