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They are different to Dhall. Puppet, Anisble and Salt are task runners. You give them configuration and they parse the configuration and then run tasks on a destination machine based on the configuration.

Dhall is a tool to generate configuration such as json, yams, xml. It’s useful if you have *complex* configurations such as a AWS Cloudformation stack or Kubernetes yaml files.



Ah ok .. thanks for that details. Puppet was also called a configuration manager and it had the capability to generate configuration files of any format in a dynamic way (via support of variables, parameters etc).




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