> Did Kubernetes kill Ansible? Kind of. I haven’t written an Ansible playbook in years - if you handed me one right now I’d be squinting at the module syntax like I’d never seen it before - not because configuration management stopped mattering, but because Kubernetes made server management easy enough that we stopped building our own node images at all - we just use whatever the cloud provider hands us, an AWS AMI built for us, no questions asked. And when did I last SSH into a node to debug something?

K8s did not kill Ansible because of ease. Ansible is obsolete because we moved from creating a machine and changing it to instantiating it with the changes we wanted. Ansible makes sense when you are continuously updating a server-in-place and is decidedly less useful when you spin up a new unit with the new configuration when changes are made. Even in this instance the underlying skills remain the same.