Host Reconciliation with a Host Agent

I actually like SSH. It is useful, fast, and hard to avoid when you are building infrastructure. Still, there is a point in every infrastructure project where SSH becomes a bad habit. At first it feels fast. Jump into a box. Edit a file. Restart a service. Fix the thing. Then the fleet grows, and you realize your operating model is just "hope the last person remembers what changed." That is not a…