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My favorite: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619834/what-is-the-difference-between-declarative-and-procedural-programming-paradigms "Let me give you a real-world example: I need a cup of tea. Procedural: Go to kitchen Get sugar, milk, and tea, Mix them, and heat over the fire till it boils Put that in a cup and bring it to me Declarative: Get me a cup of tea. In a procedural language, you define the whole process and provide the steps how to do it. You just provide orders and define how the process will be served. In a declarative language, you just set the command or order, and let it be on the system how to complete that order. You just need your result without digging into how it should be done."

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This is the right answer: Ansible is declarative and uses playbook

Ansible uses playbooks and is procedural. Answer is correct.

https://k21academy.com/ansible/terraform-vs-ansible/#procdeural Terraform follows the declarative approach, ensuring that if your defined environment suffers changes, it rectifies those changes. This tool attempts to reach the desired end state described by the sysadmin. Puppet also follows the declarative approach. With terraform, we can automatically describe the desired state and figure out how to move from one state to the next. Ansible is of hybrid nature. It follows both declarative and procedural style configuration. It performs ad-hoc commands to implement procedural-style configurations. Please read the documentation of Ansible very carefully to get in-depth knowledge of its behavior. It’s important to know whether you need to add or subtract resources to get the desired result or need to indicate the resources required explicitly.

Provided answer is correct. Puppet is declarative for sure. Ansible uses at least procedural methods.

Provided answer is correct

Puppet aims to be declarative, ansible is a hybrid of declarative and procedural! Answer is still what they are looking for but options to chose are wrong...

I take that back, that website is wrong, answer is right...

Answer is wrong: Ansible uses playbooks and is declaritive! Declarative Not Procedural- Other configuration tools tend to be procedural do this and then do that and so on. Ansible works by you writing a description of the state of the machine that you want and then it takes steps to fulfil that description. https://subramanisundaram.medium.com/ansible-infrastructure-automation-fc84ba9bd9da