Installation Roles vs. Post-installation Role Assignment (or pets vs. livestock)

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 10:31 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:28:14 +0000
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 11/15/2013 04:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > A home server/small business setup may have 5 different things
> > > installed on a single server. We can easily do this with a
> > > netinstall base to boot from and then they select the things they
> > > want via installer or post install (via yum/comps).
> > 
> > Or they can just install a single role into a container or a run it
> > in a VM on the " *one* beefy machine"
> 
> I didn't say it was a "beefy machine".
> 
> Containers are interesting, but I don't think they are mature enough
> right now to tell everyone "don't install things as you have in the
> last 10 years, you must use containers". 

I tend to agree, containers are awesome as a concept but I think are
still immature.
Both implementation and tooling still falls short, and make the machine
a lot more complex and difficult to understand than you need in the
simple cases.

Simo.

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