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The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. In Puppet, you are normally only allowed to define a resource once; you’d then apply that same resource against multiple systems. The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. Realize the virtual user resources where needed.
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see below in the “OperatingSystems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Ken’s points are absolutely valid and spot-on—I definitely recommend reading this post.
OperatingSystems/Applications. Nicholas Lane digs into using Kubernetes’ client-go dynamic client to work with namespaced Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). I recently stumbled across kube-score , which performs static analysis of Kubernetes object definitions (for more information, see the GitHub repository ).
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