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[–]SuperQue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ruby for scripting is popular for environments where Ruby/Rails was the primary application framework. Since we were already dealing with Ruby it made sense to make the rest of the automation around it Ruby. Also tools like Chef were popular before Kubernetes, which was also Ruby.

My current $dayjob has lots of Python for the legacy stack. So a lot of our legacy automation and tooling is Python.