> But every time I set up a basic box I feel teleported back to 2007.
You sat that as though its a bad thing! The author values simplicity.
> I notice FreeBSD admins tend to follow a 'pets not cattle' approach, carefully nurturing individual systems. Linux admins like myself typically prefer the 'cattle not pets' mindset—using infrastructure-as-code where if a server dies, no problem, just spin up another one. Leverage containers. Statelessness.
Is it less work to write that code and manage "pet"? Are there other advantages?
I think you probably are right about the preferred approach - but what are the advantages of each?
You sat that as though its a bad thing! The author values simplicity.
> I notice FreeBSD admins tend to follow a 'pets not cattle' approach, carefully nurturing individual systems. Linux admins like myself typically prefer the 'cattle not pets' mindset—using infrastructure-as-code where if a server dies, no problem, just spin up another one. Leverage containers. Statelessness.
Is it less work to write that code and manage "pet"? Are there other advantages?
I think you probably are right about the preferred approach - but what are the advantages of each?
> Statelessness
What about data storage?