How much to include in your machine images.
It’s an old topic, but I think one worth revisiting. When automating server provisioning, how much do you put into the machine image and how much do you do at instance start time? First a bit of background. When provisioning servers in the cloud, you start from a machine image, in AWS terminology, an Amazon Machine Image or AMI. You can find community AMIs for all sorts of operating systems… Read More »How much to include in your machine images.