[dmannorreys]

This would become very exhausting if working with very large infrastructures. 80 000 virtual and physical servers? Have fun keeping that data consistent, up to date and available with Org-mode and version control.

I'm not saying your example is wrong, but "there is an even better alternative" doesn't always apply. For smaller scales, sure.

[sedachv]

VMs need to be kept track of in whatever system you use for provisioning (AWS, OpenStack), otherwise you now have three sources of truth: what the configuration says should be running, what the DCIM thinks is running, and what is actually running.