Node automation
As we have worked on making Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with Packer, we have seen what kind of thing we can do with pre-baked instance images, but their true power is only fully harnessed when the whole infrastructure is comprised of them. If your orchestration management nodes and worker nodes have their own system images, with a couple of startup scripts also baked-in though the init system (for example, systemd startup services), you can make instances launched with those images auto-join your cluster during boot in their predefined roles. Taking this further to a conceptual level, if we extract all stateful configuration into the image configurations and all dynamic configurations into a separate service accessible to ...
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