10 or so EC2 instances that had to rebuilt and replaced every day
Just to be understood correctly, you're saying the exception proves the rule? Sidestepping the necessity of the task above, which I'm sure was rendered easier by Fabric or whatever, but it's not like that's a typical use case. You would have to ignore nuance to extrapolate that to generic VM instances from known-state images, etc. that might respond just as well to a bunch (not even a bunch) of scripts.
Just to be understood correctly, you're saying the exception proves the rule? Sidestepping the necessity of the task above, which I'm sure was rendered easier by Fabric or whatever, but it's not like that's a typical use case. You would have to ignore nuance to extrapolate that to generic VM instances from known-state images, etc. that might respond just as well to a bunch (not even a bunch) of scripts.