Nice idea, however I do not like that it is locked to use Ubuntu as the OS, it would make more sense to me to use Debian w/ Backports enabled, that way it could run on Ubuntu if someone <i>wanted</i> to, but you wouldn't be stuck with Ubuntu's often 'less that perfect' upstream testing and packaging teams.
Very cool! (Ansible author here, well done!).<p>For an earlier PHP equivalent, see <a href="http://phansible.com/" rel="nofollow">http://phansible.com/</a>