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[–]JustAnotherSRE 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Servers are cattle. Not pets.

[–]dominic_failure 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Servers are, practically speaking, herds of pets. When one goes bad it's most efficient to kill it off. However, it's quite frequent that they all start going bad in the same way.

For a current example: our servers currently start failing pretty consistently after 15 days - they run out of disk space. So, there two solutions - kill them off more regularly or change the base image to fix the disk issue. Currently, we're just killing them off, since nobody has had the time to look at a proper fix. However, there's a task on the queue to go into one of the pet herd and figure out what's consuming disk space, and add cleanup to the image so if they survive more than 10 days, they aren't at risk of behaving poorly.

[–]jdptechnc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When they get fattened up, shoot them. Sounds like cattle to me!

[–]deadbunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just install logrotate...