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by inetknght 2025 days ago
> But the image [1], once built, is still idempotent. You can deploy it and it will always contain the same configuration and code.

VMs can be idempotent too. It's just that traditionally people attach storage to it. But VM snapshots are a thing.

> To the point, where you can't be sure anymore that your current CM config will even work on a brand new machine, unless you're regularly testing that.

The same can be argued about attached storage to a container.