[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/12/2024 8:56 AM, bill wrote:
> 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?

They probably could. But industry preference seem to be for other
tools.

TerraForm/OpenTofu, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Github Actions, Jenkins, k8s,
OKD, Istio, Helm etc. are tools that seem to be in fashion.

Arne