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Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited
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The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens).
Now the special snowflake that requires specific knowledge and has to be treated with kid gloves is the DevOps step, not the servers it uses. Like pet servers, a fragile step that is working is avoided like the plague, when it should be shored up.
All I’m saying is, don’t re-implement every step over and over if you can avoid it, and don’t make steps so arcane that you need a specialist (not internal, and definitely not external).
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens).
Now the special snowflake that requires specific knowledge and has to be treated with kid gloves is the DevOps step, not the servers it uses. Like pet servers, a fragile step that is working is avoided like the plague, when it should be shored up.
All I’m saying is, don’t re-implement every step over and over if you can avoid it, and don’t make steps so arcane that you need a specialist (not internal, and definitely not external).
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