Who really did that though? I’m sure a few. But mostly back in the days before we (almost) all had containers we automated that stuff with puppet etc... It wo

Who really did that though? I’m sure a few. But mostly back in the days before we (almost) all had containers we automated that stuff with puppet etc... It worked ok but it had its own problems, we iterated and move on to disposable workloads and infrastructure - which has a completely different set of problems. Amongst other things it makes scaling even easier - if you need it and if you do it right. Before automation frameworks and services we had scripts, which were either nice and simple but limited, or a huge mess and highly complex (and often fragile). Before that we either had mainframes / centralised computing or we didn’t have scale. Maybe it was different in the windows world, but that’s pretty much what my experience has been across many clients over the past 16~ years with Linux/BSD etc...