Ansible all of the way. Chef and Puppet have too much overhead in comparison. Ansible is agentless. You can either use a centralized server for deployments or you can have every instance configure itself. Also, Ansible is YAML based, which is a strength and a weakness.
Chef is a runner up. Love their community and Chef is pretty straightforward once you learn the lingo.
Puppet doesn’t really work for modern Git development workflows (Hiera and r10k are duct tape) and testing Puppet is kludgey. Also, most of the docs you’ll find for it stopped getting updated in 2015 or so.
Chef is a runner up. Love their community and Chef is pretty straightforward once you learn the lingo.
Puppet doesn’t really work for modern Git development workflows (Hiera and r10k are duct tape) and testing Puppet is kludgey. Also, most of the docs you’ll find for it stopped getting updated in 2015 or so.