Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "TechWorld with Nana" channel.

  1. Yes, and the terrible thing is these tools all tend to invent their own little (crappy and restrictive) language rather than reusing a powerful general-purpose one that somebody might already know. So as soon as you have something more complicated / unsupported (because the tools predictably can't keep up with the providers' APIs), you must learn not just the crappy little language, but also the internals of the tool and how to extend it, which is yet another language. And in a year or two your current super-duper tool will for sure be replaced by another, like Chef came after Puppet and Ansible came after both of them, diminishing ROI from learning any of these tools. Or you can sign out of all this madness, roll your own scripts that talk to whichever cloud provider's API you need (I bet you are not going to hop between cloud providers any more than you hop between database vendors), and keep using these for decades to come. As for synchronizing individual host configurations/file system contents, rsync has not changed much since 25 years.
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