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<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><B>Ansible</B></font></td>
<td><B><U>Ansible</U></B></font></td>
<td>Puppet</td>
<td>Chef</td>
<td>Func</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Purpose</td>
<td>Config, Deployment, Ad-Hoc</td>
<td><B>Config, Deployment, Ad-Hoc</B></td>
<td>Config, Deployment</td>
<td>Config, Deployment</td>
<td>Ad-Hoc</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Config Language</td>
<td>YAML format</td>
<td><B>Simple YAML format</B></td>
<td>Custom DSL</td>
<td>Ruby code</td>
<td>None</td>
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<td>None</td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Config Ordering</td>
<td><B>Simply ordered, with notifiers</B></td>
<td>Strict dependency DAG</td>
<td>Simply ordered</td>
<td>None</td>
<td>Simply ordered</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Communication</td>
<td>SSH push</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Daemons Required?</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Database Required</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inventory Features</td>
<td>planned</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes?</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td><B>yes</B></td>
<td><B>yes?</B></td>
<td>some</td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message Bus Required</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
<td><B>no</B></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Implemented In</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extensible In</td>
<td>Anything!</td>
<td><B>Anything</B></td>
<td>Ruby</td>
<td>Ruby</td>
<td>Python</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Codebase Size</td>
<td>Small</td>
<td><B>Small</B></td>
<td>Large</td>
<td>Large</td>
<td>Medium</td>
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<tr>
<td>Module Support</td>
<td>Emerging</td>
<td>Wide/Established</td>
<td>Wide/Established</td>
<td><B>Wide/Established</B></td>
<td><B>Wide/Established</B></td>
<td>Medium/Established</td>
<td>Poor</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Users Targeted</td>
<td>Sysadmins, developers, web admins</td>
<td><B>Sysadmins, developers, QA, web admins</B></td>
<td>Sysadmins</td>
<td>Sysadmins, web admins</td>
<td>Sysadmins, developers</td>
<td>Web admins</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td>Can Easily Build Applications On It</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><B>Yes</B></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><B>Yes</B></td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Parallelism & Scaling Tech</td>
<td>Fork/Merge</td>
<td>Add Servers / Staged Commands / No Server</td>
<td>Adding More Erlang</td>
<td>Fork/Merge</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><B>Yes</B></td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
</td>