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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by tilolebo on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:07PM (#22576312)
In the current state of infrastructure, an accepted definition of "immutable infrastructure" is that:

1. You deploy a completely fresh instance/container, instead of in-place updates 2. You don't actively push changes on a running instance/container

Of course you might have stuff written to disk, such as logs, temp files, etc. But it should be non-essential data, and potentially pushed to a central place in near real-time.

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by HelloNurse on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:17PM (#22577867)
Interesting. How would you do that if your deployment is, say, a couple of new tables in a 50TB Oracle database?
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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by tilolebo on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:23PM (#22577922)
It only works with stateless resources.

There's no point in trying to manage a database or similar resources this way.

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