One manifest or many

The DevOps team had completed the process mapping and understood what was required for the delivery of each application type. They gathered information related to the tools, the platforms, the permissions and access requirements for the tools and platforms, and the teams that are concerned with each phase. If the engineering leadership decides to move forward with Ansible, then the DevOps team will need to convert the process map into the declarative file structure that Ansible expects. However, if the decision is to move forward with Harness, then the DevOps team will only have to build out the process map in Harness, which has its own automated file generation process on the backend.

Since the conversion of the process map to Ansible would be the most time-consuming process, the DevOps team decided to start building out the required Ansible playbooks. But, before they could start building those playbooks out, they had to decide on how the files would be structured...