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by sdiepend 3074 days ago
> > we don’t use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files

> This seems very odd and redundant. Does someone manually edit all servers when a new server comes online?

That's what configuration management does for you, edit the file in one place(preferable it's also in version control) and it will change it on every system for you. Some config mangement "tools" that do this for you: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, ...