OLAM isn’t fantasy football, but they both use playbooks
Most of us know about fantasy football, where we follow teams, draft players, and bet on winners and losers. Well, we’re not betting anything here, other than whether our environment will work, but we are using something called a playbook. Consider a playbook much like that used by a football coach to train their team; it’s the same concept. We’re predefining an environment or event, and programmatically architecting it to behave in the way we tell it, creating or changing the environment we are defining, or even reclaiming resources (taking back CPU, RAM, and disk space from decommissioned environments). Whatever we define within the constraints of OLAM, we can execute.
In order to create our playbook, we need to figure out who, what, where, when, and maybe even why:
- Who – What resources groups are we targeting?
- What – What kind of resources are we targeting? A VM? A physical...
