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I have nice, mature infrastructure (and expertise) for managing linux boxes. I do not have any desire to build or purchase infrastructure (and expertise) for m
by hamburglar 4y ago
I have nice, mature infrastructure (and expertise) for managing linux boxes. I do not have any desire to build or purchase infrastructure (and expertise) for managing windows boxes. If I have a task that can be done reasonably on my existing infrastructure, I’m not adding Windows to the mix without good reason.
- Kwpolska 4y agoIf you’re building Windows images, you’re already doing serious stuff with Windows, and you’re probably about to deploy it to multiple workstations. Having a Windows server in this scenario makes a whole lot of sense.
- hamburglar 4y agoEnd-user workstations are way different than operational hosts. The workstations themselves are not "serious" because they don't necessarily need configuration management, compliance monitoring, centralized user management, operational metrics monitoring, yadda yadda yadda. The service which builds those workstations' custom images is operationalized and does need all this. I'm not a Windows shop. There's no Windows in my datacenter. That's reason enough to use "non-native" processes for building Windows images.