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Re:Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrast... by dmannorreys on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:32PM (#16554736)
This would become very exhausting if working with very large infrastructures. 80 000 virtual and physical servers? Have fun keeping that data consistent, up to date and available with Org-mode and version control.

I'm not saying your example is wrong, but "there is an even better alternative" doesn't always apply. For smaller scales, sure.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrast... by sedachv on Saturday March 10, 2018 @01:40AM (#16557425)
VMs need to be kept track of in whatever system you use for provisioning (AWS, OpenStack), otherwise you now have three sources of truth: what the configuration says should be running, what the DCIM thinks is running, and what is actually running.
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