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Before virtualization and containerization, UNIX machines needed careful love and feeding. But now they are just disposable. Configured by scripts, and thrown a
by beamatronic 6y ago
Before virtualization and containerization, UNIX machines needed careful love and feeding. But now they are just disposable. Configured by scripts, and thrown away when they are no longer needed.
- dijit 6y agoI mean. Maybe? Ideally? Mostly we’ve traded a class of problems (debugging unknowns and differences between systems) with a new class of problems (complexity of cloud providers, abstractions and less debugability).
- remram 6y agoIsn't that the UNIX philosophy, just developed further? Do one thing and easily compose, applied to hosts?
- rodgerd 6y agoTurns out "retry, reboot, reinstall" was right all along.
- pjmlp 6y agoContrary to what Docker and Kubernetes generation might think, we were already doing that in HP-UX and Tru64 glory days.