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I wonder what the numbers look like for microservices, or the modern "burn down and rebuild everything" deployment methods.

Fleet management tools easily create hundreds or thousands of new virtual machines and run them through a complex npm bootstrap, when all you wanted to do was edit a file in /etc and restart node.

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Fleet management tools usually guide you not to have any files in /etc, injecting instead the configuration from outside the container, often stored in Kafka or equivalent. So you shouldn't have to recreate the container image, just stop them and re-launch.

I really hope you are not running npm commands during container start versus build ?

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