FLINT

12 notes filed under FLINT, newest first. Same rules as the rest of the pile: a codename, a theme, and no internals.

codename FLINT · 12 notes · 12 themes · all codenames

all themes alerting-versus-liveness 1 boot-entry-rollback 1 bootstrap-barrier 1 build-host-capacity 1 declared-versus-achieved 1 image-age 1 image-handoff 1 install-discovery 1 ordering-as-safety 1 reference-is-not-content 1 reversal 1 stable-identity 1

FLINT · image-handoff · 2 min read

handing an image to a machine that does not exist yet

The last stage of building a machine image is giving it to whoever will install it. Here the installer is the hosting provider's own automation, running against hardware that has not been commissioned, holding no credentials of ours, and…

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FLINT

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handing an image to a machine that does not exist yet

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