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The original question didn't have much context, and I guess my answer assumed someone would be using a cloud provider as opposed to anything on premise. Are An

• notacoward 7y ago
  > Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned? Yes. Well, OK, maybe not good but better than ad hoc.
• throw0101a 7y ago
  > 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/PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan * https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-cvp https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-cvp * https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-ansible/information-products/pathway-pages/junos-ansible.html https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-ansible/in... * https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible There are even frameworks if you want to write things in 'raw' Python as well.