@chris yeh we’re using Ansible as well in combination for configuration management but we wanted to build something based on what the upstream projects are actually releasing.
The down sides of Ansible based system we identified are:
Upstream libre software communities aren’t publishing Ansible roles
For us, that’s enough to not use it for the basis of the system. We want to use the upstream project’s packaging and they’re mostly using Docker.
We did try podman but we didn’t think it was stable enough and there’s the upstream compatibility issue.