Parler

Sun Jan 10 18:31:59 UTC 2021

On 1/10/21 10:24 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
> Peace,
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:18 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>> At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm
>> given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as
>> pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only
>> supported Chef on the spin-up side, but it showed that you could move
>> things pretty quickly if need be.
> That's not just the provisioning, you also need an independent cluster
> management and scheduling (hence Nomad).  But yes.
>
The real point of the tool was to capture all of those architectural 
features so they could be compared and contrasted. Some of them are 
fungible, some of them are not. Knowing the non-fungible ones gives you 
a window into lock ins.

Mike