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This could be used as an argument in favour of immutability. If you effectively spin up a "new" computer every time you restart a box, then it forcibly surfaces any issues with your deployment or first-run.

It's not like you don't have all the same issues with deploying your long-lived mutable systems -- you're just feeling the pain less frequently, and postponing all the work to debug them until you're in e.g. a disaster recovery scenario.



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