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My issue with mgmt.config is that it bills itself as an api-driven "modern" orchestrator, but as soon as you don't have systemd on clients, it becomes insanely complicated to blast out simple changes.
Mgmt.config also claims to be "easy", but you have to learn MCL's weird syntax, which the issue I have with chef and its use of ruby.
Yes, ansible is relatively simple, but it runs on anything (including being supported on actual arm64) and I daresay that layering roles and modules makes ansible quite powerful.
It's kind of like nagios... Nagios sucks. But it has such a massive library of monitoring tricks and tools that it will be around forever.
You skewer two apps for syntax, but not Ansible's fucking YAML? Dood. I'm building out a layered declarative config at the day-job, and it's just page after page with python's indentation fixation and powershell's bipolar expressions. This is better for you?