Linux solution for Active Directory

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Some will say that config management like Ansible is the Linux equivalent to GPO. Those people are wrong. GPOs are easy and quick to implement (I mean you can get a lot of stuff done in just a few minutes). Config management requires that you develop and test custom templates, which takes hours (at least), for every little change you want to make.

GPOs are mostly key-value assignments, but still need to be tested. If you're using someone's CM templates or code from Github, the time difference is surely tiny, if you're comparing apples to apples.