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		MonaroVXR on Jan 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administra... "It was so trivial to terminate and restart dozens of servers at any given time since unless there was a mistake in the cloud-init, we could bootstrap our entire infrastructure from scratch within an hour." Got any tips in this regard? Ansible, Puppet, Python, Terraform, Openstack Pulumi springs to my mind. Still need to cover a PXE server. (Maybe with Ansible)

NikolaeVarius on Jan 29, 2022 [–]

We use Salt Masterless with Packer to build AMIs.Terraform defines our infra. No matter what happens we ensure any service can boot by itself with 0 intervention

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