You don’t need to screw around with creating boxes, patching them, etc. if you’re tiny and only have one or two boxes running one or two services, then there’s

You don’t need to screw around with creating boxes, patching them, etc. if you’re tiny and only have one or two boxes running one or two services, then there’s not much point automating anything. If you’ve got 100s of services or handle huge load spikes, why spend extra rev cycles on concerns like “do I have enough machines” or “are these things patched?” or even “how do I make sure my service stays up?”