My experience has been that for day zero stuff, e.g. how do you get a system _prepared_ for containers, this kind of tooling is handy. I side with the sibling c

My experience has been that for day zero stuff, e.g. how do you get a system _prepared_ for containers, this kind of tooling is handy. I side with the sibling comment that cloud-init is The Way but it also requires (a) some trial and error (b) to think entirely in terms of cattle/pets which some folks/organizations are not there yet