[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[bill]

On 4/12/2024 9:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Industry prefers other OSes, too.  Are all the VMS users moving?  :-)

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

bill