The Problem: Snowflake Servers & Manual Drift
Why hand-configuring servers does not scale.
Meet the Snowflake Server
A snowflake server is one nobody can reproduce: it was hand-tuned over months, so no two of your machines are truly alike. ❄️
How They Happen
You SSH in, run a quick fix, edit a config, install one more package. Each manual change is undocumented and lives only in that one machine.
All lessons in this course
- The Problem: Snowflake Servers & Manual Drift
- Configuration Management to the Rescue
- Agentless & Push-Based: Ansible's Big Idea
- Ansible vs Puppet, Chef & Terraform