[gerhardlazu]

And one more thing: the point of a system management tool is to have no dependencies. If you need to install or use anything other than the provisioner to setup a vanilla distro, you've been hustled. Bash is guaranteed to work everywhere and that's what most love about it - myself including. But Ansible works on my RaspberryPies, on my FreeBSD storage servers and on my production Debians, Ubuntus and ArchLinuxes with no crutches or aids. I had bash scripts before, was really close to open sourcing them, but then I realised there is a much better way ; )