Lazy Linux: 11 secrets for lazy cluster admins 'Cluster' means different things to different people. In the context of this article, cluster is best defined as 'scale-out' -- scale-out clusters generally have a lot of the same type of components like Web farms, render farms, and high performance computing (HPC) systems. Administrators will tell you that with scale-out clusters any change, no matter how small, must be repeated up to hundreds of thousands of times; the laziest of admins have mastered techniques of scale-out management so that regardless of the number of nodes, the effort is the same. In this article, the authors peer into the minds of the laziest Linux admins on Earth and divulge their secrets. in Public bookmarkswith articleclustercontextdefinedmeanspeoplescale-outthings
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