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Re:The Configuration Complexity Curse by semiotagonal on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:52PM (#21553915)
Of course, once you support scripting, why not just do everything in a deployment script?

I think a lot of these tools are based on the assumption that declarative configuration should be sufficient. The tools eschew scripting because introducing it would call their basic assumptions into question.

Re:The Configuration Complexity Curse by jacquesm on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:29PM (#21554132)
It's a bit like every spreadsheet ever sooner or later being expanded with a programming language.