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That's a Lot of YAML | Sep 2023
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Do you mean the Ansible Runner interface? It is apparently still available. It was featured more prominently in early documentation (http://web.archive.org/web/20120314070643/http://ansible.git...). The discontinued OpsMop by the original author of Ansible (https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop) used a Python DSL.

I would also like to avoid writing Ansible playbooks when I need to manage servers again. Something I want to try out is Pyinfra (https://pyinfra.com/). It is like Ansible in that it is agentless and works over SSH, but with configuration in Python instead of YAML and Jinja. There is also itamae (Ruby, works over SSH or on the local machine, https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/itamae) and mitamae (mruby, local-only, https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/mitamae).
Ansible Alternatives in Python | Jun 2020
The author of Ansible actually tried to make a Python3 DSL based Ansible alternative called opsmop.[1]

I'm not sure why but it was discontinued. I would think that if anyone could make that work it would be that particular person with their previous experience from Cobbler and Ansible.

I started using Ansible when it was brand spanking new and what I've noticed over the years is that people often over complicate their Ansible use. Sometimes it's better to out source something to an RPM or a container than to use Ansible to do every single thing.

1. https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop

Ansible Alternatives in Python | Jun 2020
I have tried or used most of the projects cited in the blog post. I pretty much agree with the conclusion that Pyinfra looks the most promising at this point. I've also tried Bundlewrap (https://bundlewrap.org/) a couple of years ago though I lack the perspective to compare them. Another interesting project not cited in the post is Nuka (https://doc.bearstech.com/nuka/).

Some personal perspectives:

I have used Ansible in the past and didn't like it.

I have used Fabric and Fabtools many years ago (Fabtools happens to be written by a friend) and I agree that something like Fabtools is needed to make Fabric relevant. Fabric has a completely revamped version, which was quite long in the making, but not fairly stable, but AFAIK Fabric 2 doesn't (yet) have something similar to what Fabtools was to Fabric 1.

I had great hope for opsmop (https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop) by Ansible's creator, which was supposed to address Ansible's shortcomings, but he dropped the project (citing lack of traction) a few months after starting it in 2018.

At this point I'm sticking to Fabric 2, but I'm still looking for alternatives.

I'm also wondering if Augeas (https://augeas.net/ - a configuration editing tool which parses configuration files for a large set of software in their native formats and transforms them into a tree) could be used in combination with one the of tools mentioned in the post to ease the parts related to managing configuration.

Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at scale | Jun 2020
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https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop for the record
Why are we templating YAML? | Feb 2019
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Is there a reason http://opsmop.io/ and http://vespene.io/ are both down and their Github's both say "DISCONTINUED"?

https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop

https://github.com/vespene-io/vespene