> We all know one of those people who’ll tell you that the answer to all infrastructure problems is a bunch of EC2 instances, a golden AMI and a load balancer.

> We all know one of those people who’ll tell you that the answer to all infrastructure problems is a bunch of EC2 instances, a golden AMI and a load balancer. Those people might be right, but if take a look at your infrastructure right now, could you solve the problems in your organization by going back to building AMIs and sticking them behind a load balancer? Even if you can, do you really want to? No, I thought not. Other than the slow pace to bake and test golden images I still prefer this approach. It is simple and a proven design and easy to build-out on every single cloud provider. I might be biased tho, this is how we manage the host's for our several thousand Kubernetes clusters. I'm just kind of used to it.