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		xorcist on Sept 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chef to be acquired by Progress That is your configuration, which you (may) want to manage. Your whole infrastructure contains much more than that, and managing all that as a coherent whole is what these tools do.

dharmab on Sept 9, 2020 [–]

Yeah, but what's left after you slim down your VMs to a Linux kernel, an SSH daemon and a container runtime? Is a CM system really justified at that point? Why not bake VM images and treat the VMs as immutable?

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