[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[bill]

On 4/12/2024 8:32 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-04-12, mjos_examine <m6502x64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> That could be an opportunity for someone to develop, if they get too
> annoyed by having to rebuild their servers every year.
> 
> Hopefully based on JSON proper and not that yaml nonsense however...
> 
> [I dislike yaml with a passion. It's way too fragile and JSON is just
> as easy to read if you layout each JSON element indented on a new line.]
> 

Hmmmmm....  I wonder if this could be done with something like CFEngine?

bill