For my 2020-1 holiday break, I decided my next personal project would be to rebuild my home infrastructure on containers. I’d been inspired by a recent discovery of LinuxServer.io, where open source projects are built and run as containers. While I have a burning desire to better my Kubernetes practice, not enough of the world delivers software as a Helm chart, so merely running everything as containers would be a good intermediate step. Let me share my first six steps with examples…

This Calm.io blog recap was originally written and posted by me on May 26, 2016 at http://calm.io/2016/05/26/reconciling-configuration-management-and-immutable-infrastructure/, and slightly enhanced on February 18, 2018.

This Calm.io blog recap was originally written and posted by me on May 24, 2016 at http://calm.io/2016/05/24/configuration-management-in-the-devops-world/, and slightly enhanced on February 18, 2018.

In these early years of containers, “heavy containers” represent a typical approach which resembles virtual machines, includes the operating system user land, and desires configuration management. Does this starting point represent the opposite of container promise and the journey to immutable infrastructure?