The doc is indeed pretty good, and available offline (ansible-doc). I quite like that it uses a very declarative syntax, and it's relatively easy to get idempotent operations. And the fact that you don't need to install anything on the machine you administer is definitely a strong point.

One downside is that I can see how tracking down role dependencies would be tricky if you had many different roles. I also haven't tried at scale.

I was really excited by ansible, but I quickly found out that using `register: result` and `when: result|success` throughout so many playbooks meant I was back to the mess that is understanding the flow of a chef script that you didn't personally write.

Maybe that's not a problem since I rarely found an open source ansible playbook for anything I needed and had to always write my own.

Hi, I've published some reusable roles for ansible. They are still quite basic, but I'd love for you to have a look at them. https://github.com/search?q=%40zenoamaro+ansible

Always great to see people putting up open-source projects like this. I'll definitely give them a look, and at the least, get a grip on how other people found solutions with Ansible. Thanks man.