In cloud environments, it's pretty standard practice to automate cluster provisioning. If your cluster are pets, you're not doing it quite right. > If all you

In cloud environments, it's pretty standard practice to automate cluster provisioning. If your cluster are pets, you're not doing it quite right. > If all your infra fits on one machine, it's way easier to have that as your pet What stops you from automating the provisioning of that? These are two orthogonal issues. Clusters are used to manage many machines. If you need only one machine, you don't need a cluster. Either way, the provisioning of single nodes and clusters should be automated. Whether you have pets or cattle is not related to how many machines you have.