Haven't used it personally and hope my colleague can weight in on that one, but it was on the list of tools we evaluated end of last year while working with Chef.
It use agents ("minions") and is architected very differently. Ultimately, we settled for Ansible because it uses lean and out-of-the-box tech, doesn't push dependencies on remote hosts and uses YAML extensively (close enough to JSON, actually I believe JSON is a subset of YAML).
It use agents ("minions") and is architected very differently. Ultimately, we settled for Ansible because it uses lean and out-of-the-box tech, doesn't push dependencies on remote hosts and uses YAML extensively (close enough to JSON, actually I believe JSON is a subset of YAML).