Why I advise people not to learn Ansible

We have come a long way from iron servers and manual configuration to serverless and GitOps. At every step of this journey, we found a new way to deal with configuration drift. Configuration management tools have been excellent solutions in certain situations. But too often they act as a metaphysical hammer and every problem becomes a nail.

During this talk, we'll take a journey through generations of configuration drift solutions to understand what we have today and what tomorrow will bring.