Pets have names, livestock is tagged
2025-07-12 // 2 min read // #ansible #devops #tailscale
There’s an oft-quoted phrase in the cloud/DevOps space.
Treat infrastructure as cattle, not pets.
To me, the advice is broad and emblematic for a lot of modern practices. Prefer disposable containers over long-lived hosts. Build infrastructure that scales horizontally to accomodate demand. Design architectures where components can be swapped out on the fly.
I thought I’d recap some recent changes to how I provision and manage this blog - addressing a few places where hostnames were hardcoded for convenience.