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When you have three+ Macs to configure, it starts looking more like a fleet and less like a single computer :)

The main advantage I see is at it's a lot easier to reason with Yaml configuration than shell scripts with a ton of conditionals, and it's also easier to use Ansible's modules to make sure you can reprovision whenever you want to get new things added or old things removed.




That's exactly my use case as well, which I detailed in a writeup:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-computer-one-...

It's a great way to synchronize state between computers, including installed packages, fonts, Vim plugins, etc.

It goes much further than dotfiles.




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