This isn't a system you'd deploy and expect others to maintain. It's a system for developing your playbook and Ansible / Puppet / etc configurations.
Emacs is absolutely suitable for the use case of a professional developer writing these things.
The literate programming notebook approach is very interesting. Better IMO is to reverse it and write copious comments throughout an idempotent script that you can continually edit and re-execute.
In either case, the final product that you share with others are your notes and an actual deployed configuration for a real system, not a config file for an IDE.
Emacs is absolutely suitable for the use case of a professional developer writing these things.
The literate programming notebook approach is very interesting. Better IMO is to reverse it and write copious comments throughout an idempotent script that you can continually edit and re-execute.
In either case, the final product that you share with others are your notes and an actual deployed configuration for a real system, not a config file for an IDE.