I'm sorry, but even as fairly smart tech guy this page was not helpful to me. It didn't tell me anything useful about Ansible. I was left wondering ".... how the hell does it work? how do I use it?" and basically had to investigate their homepage to figure out why I should care. If it was a sales pitch to get me interested, it worked, but what the hell are sales pitches doing on HN?
"but what the hell are sales pitches doing on HN?"
I assume this is a rhetorical question :-) A number of folks on HN are either in a full-time or part-time dev/ops role and so tools that are developed in this space are interesting.
Unlike other sites there aren't specific subcategories of interest on HN so you get the devops stuff with the politics stuff with the new language stuff with the economics stuff with the funky physics stuff with the the i-did-a-thing stuff.
Ansible is an example of what is part of the Web 3.0 stack, dynamic but durable provisioning of resources out of a third party infrastructure.
Well, that's my point... why have a page which basically just says "Ansible is cool! Go check it out!" I mean, that's cool that they like Ansible, but there wasn't any real content... it was just link bait, basically. I just find blatant advertisement or marketing to not be useful. I would rather they have posted a cool thing you can do with ansible, or really anything of any value other than a brief outline and a link.
