[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[mjos_examine]

On 2024-04-11 8:53 p.m., David Goodwin wrote:
> how many
> people really want to have to setup their OpenVMS instances from scratch
> every year?


A baseline canned virtual machine for an OS is often how cloud-based 
Continuous Integration begins each of its passes. Once that baseline VM 
is running, all the customization, add-ons and unique bits then get 
applied hands-free by scripts, often laid out by a yml file, or similar 
mechanism.

If commodity provisioning of OpenVMS instances in the cloud ever becomes 
a reality, the way it has for other platforms, that provisioning would 
likely work much the same way.