On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:57:57AM +0200, Sandro "red" Mathys wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - server == pet == a system that is running on the bare hardware and may > > run the IaaS or PaaS that is running instances/applications. I care a > > lot if this goes down because it's infrastructure. > > - instance/image == cattle == a system that has the libraries/apps I > > need *right now* and is being used as part of scale out applications, > > and if it dies, I don't care as much because I have an automated > > system that can spin up a new image with the application data. > > > > (Being *very* general here). > > I very much like this approach to say the Server Product is for pets > and the Cloud Product is for cattle. But I do think both pets and > cattle can be run both on bare metal or virtualized. Sure. As I said, I was being *very* general... and we would want to provide a cloud image that can be spun up on bare metal, in addition to the images for AWS and KVM, Xen and/or the major open source IaaSes. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat jzb@xxxxxxxxxx | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct