Embracing Destruction: Pets versus Cattle

Any roles involved in a project that do not directly contribute toward the goal of putting valuable software in the hands of users as quickly as possible should be carefully considered.
                                                                                                           -Stein Inge Morisbak

We should discuss the high-level strategies before we start exploring tools and processes that will help us create and operate a "real" Swarm cluster. How are we going to treat our servers? Are they going to be pets or cattle?

How do you know whether you are treating your servers as pets...