It started with a few temporary bash scripts.
I think of Bash scripts as basically technical debt a lot of the time. “Hmm, when I get some spare time I’ll fix those” things that niggle in the back of my mind. The ones on this project were pretty hard to maintain and took way too long. Mostly they were used to log onto a given array of servers and perform some actions, so they ran everything in sequence, and if anything broke along the way, it would block everything else from being run.