Image Sprawl , and the new cure ..
When I tell people that the concept of copying VM’s around as frequently done in the VMWare world is one of the most stupid ideas on this planet, I get the weirdest looks.
In my world it is, I want my infrastructure to be reproducible , I want to be able to throw any machine in my infrastructure out of the 10th floor of a building and be up and running again in no time. If I spread a bunch of VM copies around who knows what kind of life they start leading. Some will get upgrades, some won’t ..
If I get an image from someone, how did he get there ? Nobody knows ..