Yes it is, but the future is not evenly distributed, to paraphrase William Gibson. For many enterprises, even Ansible&#x27;s current model is already way out there in the distant future.<p>Also, I think Ansible&#x27;s idempotent model actually works nicely with immutable infrastructure. Why? For <i>development</i> of your stack. While messing around with it, you probably don&#x27;t want to rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Of course you can play funny games with caching of remote packages and so on, but that&#x27;s getting into Ansible territory anyway.<p>So I think a good model for immutable infrastructure is to use a tool like Ansible to develop the stack, then in production you would use the same tool to spin up immutable instances.