On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:57:57AM +0200, Sandro "red" Mathys wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > - server == pet == a system that is running on the bare hardware and may
> >   run the IaaS or PaaS that is running instances/applications. I care a
> >   lot if this goes down because it's infrastructure.
> > - instance/image == cattle == a system that has the libraries/apps I
> >   need *right now* and is being used as part of scale out applications,
> >   and if it dies, I don't care as much because I have an automated
> >   system that can spin up a new image with the application data.
> >
> > (Being *very* general here).
> 
> I very much like this approach to say the Server Product is for pets
> and the Cloud Product is for cattle. But I do think both pets and
> cattle can be run both on bare metal or virtualized.

Sure. As I said, I was being *very* general... and we would want to
provide a cloud image that can be spun up on bare metal, in addition to
the images for AWS and KVM, Xen and/or the major open source IaaSes. 

Best, 

jzb
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