Joking aside, there is something to be said about doing CM with the shell.
If somebody created a list of requirements for the perfect language for doing CM it would probably be similar to:
- Always available on every machine
- Proven reliable and stable
- Built to interface with the OS and other utilities
Hmm, that sounds a lot like the shell. If your application doesn't already depend on Ruby, bringing Ruby in as a dependency, is a lot of extra overhead. There is something to be said about this concept, but it should be shell all the way down.
On the other hand, Python comes installed by default on Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, MacOS X, Solaris and OpenIndiana, at least, so a "full" CM system like Ansible is potentially more portable than FSS :)
If somebody created a list of requirements for the perfect language for doing CM it would probably be similar to:
- Always available on every machine
- Proven reliable and stable
- Built to interface with the OS and other utilities
Hmm, that sounds a lot like the shell. If your application doesn't already depend on Ruby, bringing Ruby in as a dependency, is a lot of extra overhead. There is something to be said about this concept, but it should be shell all the way down.