Can orchestration be considered a better alternative to provisioning and configuration management, especially in the case of cloud-native applications? We can look at this from a variety of angles; comparing against data centre-oriented solutions; differentiating orchestration of infrastructure (in the cloud and out of the cloud) versus containers (focusing mostly on cloud), as well as looking at best practices under different scenarios.
It’s worth noting here that this topic can span not only a plethora of articles but a plethora of books – but as the great Richard Feynman used to say, it is not only about reading or working through problems, but also to discuss ideas, talk about them, and communicate to others.
