Cattle Not Pets

What does it actually mean. Ultimately focusing on the disposability of servers a concept that google in fact pioneered is the most important aspect of pets vs.

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This blog post is intended to help readers understand how we run our underlying infrastructure and how our security posture is bolstered in the process.

Cattle not pets. It provides customers a better service reduces time to recovery and eliminates lost revenue from production outages. Servers are cattle not pets randy bias. Stateful applications as pets distracts and muddies the waters.

This not so new but increasingly referenced mantra for running infrastructure comes with a number of reliability and security benefits. Servers are cattle not pets. Running cattle rather than pets is a computing infrastructure best practice no matter what layer of the stack.

The term treat your servers like cattle not pets has proliferated in recent years particularly when applied to docker containers and virtual machines. Randy elaborated in 2016 a bit about the analogy s background and history. Kubernetes became the standard for container orchestration because it allows you to treat your containers like cattle.

It is thought the server cattle analogy was first mentioned around 2012 by randy bias. Whom in turn was influenced by bill baker s scale out not up. Cattle and losing that focusing on some other aspect or ascribing something not intended e g.

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