Is Ansible Still a Thing?
Number of Ansible related posts is decreasing on HN, if one takes a look for the last month at least. I wonder if Ansible still a thing ? I know that k8s slowly kills it, however I think there is still some niche for it … Or even in the area of configuration management and server provisioning it is being replaced by something else?
It's more a server thing than an ansible thing per se I think. People who need to actually manage servers, rather than higher level abstractions like containers or serverless functions I'm sure would still use it, but that number is dropping I think.
Ansible dominating only in easy installation over the other two tools as it has 'agentless' architecture.
Chef and Puppet follow master-agent or master-slave architecture.
I still find Ansible compelling when I don't want to go full blown K8S. For example it's much easier to run a linux instance and use Ansible to move files and restart systemd hosting my web-app.