Following this thread. Currently on Chef and looking to migrate. The license change killed us.
What do you use for configuration management across 15 cheap servers?
Chef is still around? I thought everyone left after 2019.
Memory issues with salt were on 2018 era. Modern salt-minion is fine. But honestly for 15 nodes just fix your ansible forks.
What about Terraform for the initial setup and ansible for config? Or is that overkill for 15 servers?
Overkill. Terraform is for cattle, 15 servers is still pets. Use whatever you're comfortable with and fix the obvious bottlenecks first.