https://codepurrpurr.io/tags/configuration-management/ Recent content in configuration-management on Platform Engineering and Authentication Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codepurrpurr.io/platform-engineering/intent-driven-ansible-design/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codepurrpurr.io/platform-engineering/intent-driven-ansible-design/ Problem Ansible is procedural by design. That is not inherently a problem. The problem starts when the playbook becomes responsible for deciding what kind of system it is building. As application families grow, orchestration logic accumulates branches: environment-specific conditionals hostname checks package selection logic server-role branching application-specific execution paths The playbook stops being an execution engine and becomes a decision engine. It grows harder to reason about, harder to test, and harder to extend without introducing unintended behavior.