> I know that a lot of people are reluctant to change because they have invested heavily in the times, money, efforts in something like puppet and they simply do not want to give puppet up
That's not me. Just recently I switched companies and needed to set up a new devops environment from scratch, and before starting I evaluated Ansible, Chef and Salt to determine whether they were superior to Puppet. I decided they were not.
I am not "in love" with Puppet. People who are in love with technology tend to make decisions for the wrong reasons. I have very little loyalty when it comes to choosing software, and will gladly replace any part of my stack if there is a better solution; but I greatly appreciate maturity and stability. Freshly minted, grandly-hyped technology is by definition immature.
I am truly tired of software being unnecessarily reinvented. The "not invented here" (or perhaps "not invented by me") treadmill where young, inexperienced developers throw away older, mature technology simply because it's not fresh and new is something I try to stay away from. Sometimes (Rails, Node.js, Nginx, Go) it brings something genuinely new to the stable, but generally it doesn't.
Lastly, I don't appreciate your condescending tone. And really, I'm not your friend.
That's not me. Just recently I switched companies and needed to set up a new devops environment from scratch, and before starting I evaluated Ansible, Chef and Salt to determine whether they were superior to Puppet. I decided they were not.
I am not "in love" with Puppet. People who are in love with technology tend to make decisions for the wrong reasons. I have very little loyalty when it comes to choosing software, and will gladly replace any part of my stack if there is a better solution; but I greatly appreciate maturity and stability. Freshly minted, grandly-hyped technology is by definition immature.
I am truly tired of software being unnecessarily reinvented. The "not invented here" (or perhaps "not invented by me") treadmill where young, inexperienced developers throw away older, mature technology simply because it's not fresh and new is something I try to stay away from. Sometimes (Rails, Node.js, Nginx, Go) it brings something genuinely new to the stable, but generally it doesn't.
Lastly, I don't appreciate your condescending tone. And really, I'm not your friend.