We're using Chef right now, and evaluating other options. They seem to either be...

digisign · on March 14, 2014

As I mentioned in another place above, if you'd like an alternative that is even simpler than ansible, yet still idempotent, try pave:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pave

https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave

frist45 · on March 14, 2014

Other co-author here: I couldn't agree with you enough. We settled on Ansible, but have had our fair share of speed bumps along the way.

mikegirouard · on March 14, 2014

Out of pure curiosity, what makes Ansible the best choice for you?

For my team, I decided on Ansible because it was the simplest option (no agents to install, pure ssh).

_vya7 · on March 14, 2014

By the way, that's the same reason I'm investigating using Pallet[1].

[1]: http://palletops.com/

frist45 · on March 15, 2014

We were coming from Chef where no one knew what was going on. We were looking for something simpler. There wasn't really many other options unfortunately. We're not full-time devops people...hence much of our frustration.