Archive for February 4th, 2009
Golden Image or Foil Ball?
The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines, which come with their own idioms and practices for managing them. One of the mainstays of managing virtual machines (’VMs’) uses what’s called ‘golden images’. These are images built up complete with the services they’re supposed to run, so [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2009 under Puppet, Sysadmin.
Tags: cloud, ec2, goldenimage, Puppet, reductive
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