First off...wow. Never expected this to hit front page. Just started writing and trying to get the juices flowing.

You could totally use an Ansible playbook. I've used a lot of them over the years. Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, Puppet, etc... As I said at the end of the article I glossed over a lot of things and the beauty of tech is there are lots of ways to do things. Do what works for you. Tradeoffs all over the place.

I do think that shell scripts provide lower level insight to people that may be trying to understand what is going on rather than the magic of something like Ansible that abstracts things away. Or maybe I'm just old school :D