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Where’s The Future?
All efforts at better automation are good. Immutable Systems methods, containerization
and PaaS seek alternatives to config tools, but I’m not 100% happy with them yet.
Classic automation wishes there were better ways too, but is doing things for what need to
be done to glue Linux together. As such, it’s not going anywhere soon!
Many people don’t want to change, or can’t change, the way they write apps. Often it’s
strategic to have choice.
CM is a necessary evil, serving purposes of good, because there are too many things to
glue together. It feels rough sometimes because Linux is rough, and things bubble up.
The good automation serves is that of buying time for other things as well as reducing
human error from manual or forgotten steps.
In many cases, we’re still very explicitly pushing bits, and looking for higher level
abstractions.