On Wed, Jul 23, 2014, at 09:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Hmmmm -- I'm not sure that's the way we should slice it. Not
to lean too
hard on the pets-vs-cattle analogy, but long-term, I think that's the
better
distinction
In that you see Cloud as cattle and Server as pets?
which probably includes systems running on bare metal
under
the "cloud" umbrella. OpenStack and possibly oVirt compute nodes tend to
fall in the "cattle" category too, and one can easily see a server farm
running many near-identical Atomic instances on bare metal.
Yes, though the Atomic model *does* fully support pets.
(I've had several people think atomic == stateless, and that's
definitely not the case)
We *could* go the other way -- cloud being virt guests and server
being
bare
metal. From the perspective of putting together the release, that does
make
some sense, but I think it's mostly a useful distinction from _that_
direction, and not so useful from the user/usecase side.
There's at the moment a strong technical distinction: whether or not
cloud-init is enabled by default.
FWIW I'm fine with keeping it in Cloud as well - the main point of the
change is to increase in scope to support bare metal.