But... How do you configure the hosts where your containers are running on? How do you configure your storage (NAS/SAN)? How do you configure your routers and switches? ...
Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?
Ansible is used in networking, which many vendors having official modules:
* https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan
* https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-cvp
* https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-ansible/in...
* https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible
There are even frameworks if you want to write things in 'raw' Python as well.
Yes. Well, OK, maybe not good but better than ad hoc.