Mainly I want to make my personal server deployments more robust. Currently I have a lot of pets being held together with ductape and bubblegum and would like to move towards cattle. The idea of just throwing a config out there and it does the rest sounds great.

faradayfedora

Rather then shaping your system by setting up and installing stuff as your use it. You just have a master config and you declare what and how and boom you have it. Want to reproduce that machine? Copy the config and you have it. 

i ve been using ubuntu/debian/red hat and now manjaro for a year.

What will be the avantages ?