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Six months with puppet

When I retired the server in my closet in favour of Amazon EC2 instances, it quickly became clear that I needed to operate as if the EC2 instances could be lost at any moment: when all was said and done, these systems were not under my control. Putting effort into setting up individual services by hand no longer made sense. Thus, I needed a better configuration management system and I needed true automation that could quickly rebuild machines if they were lost.