Ansible is a pig that does many things, very few of them right or well. Going by your logic, why use a dedicated IaC tool like Terraform or Pulumi if you can just force Ansible to kind of do it ?

New tools covering a specific niche, even if that niche is already covered by a bigger, more established tool, are frequent. Not everyone needs or wants the kitchen sink approach. If you're using only CloudFormation to manage AWS, why would you force misery upon yourself to use Ansible just for AWS auth?

* I slightly exaggerate, but i genuinely consider Ansible to be the worst CM tool of the "modern" ones (so excluding CFEngine) at any sort of scale/enterprise. It has so many things wrong it's baffling for me people are removing existing Puppet, Chef, Salt envs to replace them with Ansible. It's awesome for homelabs or similar though.

Ansible is so much more than CM. I agree that TF does infra provisioning better. Even so, I don't see how Ansible solves the same problem. Ansible is not interactive.

> Ansible is so much more than CM

And it barely even does that well.

It's just because ansible is NOT DESIGNED for that typе of tasks. it's very inconvenient use ansible when I need just a command line tool to manage my dev env, quick and flexible ... I don't want to edit YAML files and run ansible again when I can just rerun a command line tool with different input parameters ...

Yeah, and reinvent them in Node.js!

because Ansible doesn't solve the problem this tool solves.