Discussion on: How do you manage deployment configs? (Especially large scale cloud agnostic ones)

While I've not tried Terraform yet, Ansible is something I setup recently.

I agree there's initial hiccups but once wrapped up, these are few benefits:

• You can adhere to Infrastructure-as-Code
• because it needs a control machine relying solely on SSH, it can be configured on virtually any OS
• It also eliminates installing / upgrading / maintaining any agent services that can become a point of failure
• YAML's make it easy for everyone to understand

Once you're done with it, you can also look to integrate it with Rundeck for more visibility via UI & more fine grained controls