Ideas for a Python tool for automating configuration of VMs

[Qurious]

If Salt is newbie friendly, I would use salt. But here is my experience …

I put my impression of Salt into another thread because that is another matter.

Salty Salt: Why do I dislike Salt after spending 1 day on it

Salt is a mixture of Jinja (macro and programming logic that looks semi-Python), YAML (configuration mixed with call of builtin functions), and Python (reusable custom function/library). In a single file, the user can mix and match Jinja and YAML… macro and logic in one sub-item of an item in the YAML is allowed. I prefer to use only Python to implement reusable logic. I would keep configuration data and programming logic as separated as possible. If you use Python to implement a step in your w…

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