On: Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)

[simpaticoder]

Looks like it was invented by Canonical for AWS/EC2 in 2006 (!). It was then gradually adopted by other clouds over the next 10 years or so (GCP adopted in 2013, Azure a couple years later). Linode (Akamai Cloud now, I guess) adopted in 2023. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

This got me to wondering when I first heard about HTML, HTTP, Linux, UTF-8, or any number of things, and from where, how so many of the things I've heard of once and never again, and the many important "standard" things I've never heard of.

[mdaniel → simpaticoder]

It also works great in VirtualBox and Qemu and packer will create the floppy or .iso for cloud-init painlessly: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicor...

I was super sad that Bottlerocket went with their own toml nonsense