There are many infrastructure automation framework besides Ansible, namely Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack. Each framework offers its own unique features and models, and there is no right tool that fits all the organizations. In this section, I would like to list out some of the advantages of Ansible and why I think this is a good tool for network automation.

From a network engineering point of view, rather than any one point below, I believe it is the combination of all the following reasons that makes Ansible ideal for network automation.