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I'm not sure what I'm looking at. What is being "automated" here? The headline and home page don't give much context.

• otoburb 10y ago
  The main points around automation seem to be[1]: * Flexible versioning and configuration rollout * Ability to deploy anywhere * Ease of management Concretely, they're touting their gossip-based configuration and topology management layer as a way to send configuration updates to service groups, and then letting the service groups apply the changes to all the group members. Contrast this with a more traditional way of propagating changes across a network by enumerating every single host/VM/container. I'd imagine another large component of the application automation would come in the form of tooling allowing the ability to deploy anywhere (bare metal vs. VM vs. container vs. IaaS/PaaS providers), but haven't seen that just yet. Maybe it's being covered in the live announcement. [1] https://www.habitat.sh/about/why-package-automation-with-app/ https://www.habitat.sh/about/why-package-automation-with-app...
  • _greim_ 10y ago
    So but am I automating devices in my home/building IoT-style? Or am I automating deployments of software? Or hardware? "gossip-based configuration and topology management" means nothing to me unless I know actually what the overall context is here.
    • otoburb 10y ago
      From what I'm reading, I believe this is primarily geared towards trying to automate software deployments.
  • blakeyrat 10y ago
    The two-word answer seems to be "software builds". I am always amazed at people's capability to give an extremely complicated answer to an extremely simple question. "What is being automated here?" "Software builds."