When containerization was young, one of its early principles was the ideal of immutable infrastructure, the ability to build a support structure for a container that was flexible enough to meet the container’s needs during its lifespan, which may be short, but remained a fixed asset throughout that duration.
It spoke to a possible, complete outmoding of one of IT’s most critical functions — configuration management — and a skill upon which enterprises dearly depend upon today. While the leading vendors in the space began discussing evolutionary adaptations, the practitioners in the space rallied together, forming a kind of global support group to keep hope alive through the evolutionary maelstrom.
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