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by mlyle 2379 days ago
> They're marketing this as a "mini-cloud". If it can only network through NAT, that eliminates all use cases where the VM instances would act as a server.

Think about this as if you want to carry around 3-4 hosts running different services and interacting with each other... on your laptop.

You don't really want bridged networking, because you connect to a different network and screw up the entire environment with different numbering, etc.

This way you can be on a plane without network access and still get work done, or carry a complete demonstration environment to a customer site, or...