I still feel you're ultimately defining a DAG ("I want 20 web servers, 3 database servers and 2 load balancers") and relying on some compare-and-repair (health checks and replacement).
But you've moved your unit of management from packages etc to machines. I've previously argued that this is the key thing that will change web hosting economics. I was sorta wrong, but I can see now where you were coming from.
Snoop-doggy move over; Nerd-DAGgy defines the season!
In an interview with MTV on his new formal collection, taglined 'S-eXpression', Nerd-DAGgy was asked what the secret of the hot new look was. In characteristic brevity, he replied "It's declarative."
-- This Season's Assembly, Fashion World, February 16, 2013.
I still feel you're ultimately defining a DAG ("I want 20 web servers, 3 database servers and 2 load balancers") and relying on some compare-and-repair (health checks and replacement).
But you've moved your unit of management from packages etc to machines. I've previously argued that this is the key thing that will change web hosting economics. I was sorta wrong, but I can see now where you were coming from.