What I really want is something like either ansible or this that:

- Doesn't unnecessarily send code over the network.

- Has some sort of "execution optimizer".

Think for example a query planner/optimizer of a db. Or, as a good example, the query planner of the polars framework as opposed to how it works in pandas.

If I do a for loop and each loop iteration copies a file into the same dir, the optimizer should catch that and send over one compressed tar file.

Wanted to try PyInfra for a long while but this is a deal breaker: https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/issues/1242

i tried ansible before and hated it, this idea is genius.

How does this compare to Salt Stack?

“Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Use Salt to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of your infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.”

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/about_salt_proj...

I have started to adapt https://testinfra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, which looks similar in style to this from the verification side. Having previously used Salt, Ansible, and Chef at other companies, this looks great from a UX perspective compared to those other tools.

The amount of repetition of @override seems unpythonic to me, but maybe that's python being unpythonic.

https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/blob/3.x/src/pyinfra/...

The is cool, thank you for sharing. I was just thinking about onboarding to ansible since I’ve just been following a manual checklist of commands for my remote server but based on positive feedback here I’ll probs oh give this a shot. Only downside is I imagine LLMs are probably a little more proficient at ansible just due to volume of training data.

Is there anything like Ansible Tower or Semaphore for PyInfra? Or some more generic tool that would work similarly?

I could likely vibecode something up if I had to, but I'm interested in a job orchestration system that can run things like upgrades, scheduled backups, ideally with a nice dashboard showing successful/failed jobs.

This looks great! pyinfra will integrate better with my other code, and installing it with uv fits my workflow better. Thanks for the post. I'll give it a try. I think some of my Caprover initialization tasks could also be handled by pyinfra.

Thank you for this, im using it in combo with consul to fetch the inventory and labels. So easy to setup and maintain. But im heavily using python anyway, so writing my own classes, connectors was kinda.. free.