Microsoft's Bill Baker came up with this analogy of pets and cattle and he applied it to the servers in the data center. Okay, honestly we care for our pets. We love them and show affection towards them, name them as well. We think of their hygiene; if they fall sick, we take them to the vet. Do we take such care of our cattle? Of course, we don't; this is because we do not care that much about cattle.
The same analogy is true with respect to servers and containers. In pre-DevOps days, server admins cared about servers. They used to name those server machines and also have dedicated maintenance downtime and so on. With DevOps practices, such as infrastructure as code and containerization, containers ...
