Ask HN: Is Ansible Still a Thing?

It's more a server thing than an ansible thing per se I think. People who need to actually manage servers, rather than higher level abstractions like containers or serverless functions I'm sure would still use it, but that number is dropping I think.

Ansible dominating only in easy installation over the other two tools as it has 'agentless' architecture.

Chef and Puppet follow master-agent or master-slave architecture.

Puppet started to decline 10 years ago, and the change in ownership destroyed Chef as a desirable platform.

I still find Ansible compelling when I don't want to go full blown K8S. For example it's much easier to run a linux instance and use Ansible to move files and restart systemd hosting my web-app.