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So, um: devops and cloud architecture is my job. I think I know what "cattle vs pets" is referring to. Nothing in this thread has anything to do with one versus many processes or one versus many nodes, nor does it have anything to do with manual configuration of anything. Rewrite the configuration based in orchestration data or, in extremity, upload a new version of a cookbook that handles that new site; the hypothetical sixth site is added and the service kicked over without human interaction. Scaling is an orthogonal concern.